beliefs quotes

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

This way of life is worth defending.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Christians are not limited to any church.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.