Quotes About Belief

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

For they conquer who believe they can.

If you are aggressive about something, you don't get it, but if you love, you can conquer everything.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting, truth-loving person.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

There is a belief, at least on the part of the American people, that they can borrow money forever without consequence.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.