Quotes About Beliefs

Faith, family and then football. Those are my priorities now.

I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Access to legitimate information and thoughtful analysis is the lifeblood of a democracy, the basis of which people make decisions about who they vote for and what they believe in. And if you're only getting half the story, that certainly doesn't lead to an informed citizenry.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.

I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.

He's a graduate of Cornell University, he played basketball there—he's six-three, he weighs one-eighty, he lives in Wilmette, he's thirty-six, brown-eyed, balding, he has a habit of tugging at his left ear, he wears tinted spectacles, he's Missouri Synod Lutheran, he has two children, twelve and ten, Harry and Estelle, Estelle

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Culture is partly made out of information. There are at least two main types of this information. One is a set of shared beliefs and values. The other is shared knowledge of how to do things. Culture consists of both.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

It is not anti-scientific to question established beliefs, but central to science itself. At the creative heart of science is the spirit of open minded inquiry. Ideally, science is a process and not a position or a belief system. Innovative science happens when scientists feel free to ask questions and build new theories.

I am more interested in dogs than in dogmas. Obviously

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

?ak se i sprema?ica koja mi je ujutro pospremala sobu upuštala sa mnom u razgovore o politici, a ?im bi bila slobodna, bacala se na ?itanje novina. I ona je imala vlastita vatrena uvjerenja i kada bi pri?ala o njima lice bi joj se u cijelosti crvenjelo i mahala bi stisnutom pesnicom po zraku.

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for everything.

Mine was the same psychology that makes Negroes even today, though it bothers them down inside, keep letting the white man tell them how much "progress" they are making. They've heard it so much they've almost gotten brainwashed into believing it—or at least accepting it.

A lot of people don't have opinions...they have weaponized ideals.

In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

On one side of the divide are fundamentalist and many conservative-evangelical Christians. On the other side are moderate-to-liberal Christians, mostly in mainline denominations.