Belief Quotes

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.