Believe In God Quotes - Page 28

• [On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Believe, Belief, Music Is

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• I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: portside.org

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• It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Believe, Giving

  "Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

  Sophy Burnham

  Prayer, Believe, Law

  Sophy Burnham (2002). “The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives”, Viking Adult

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• I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

  Natalie Angier

  Atheist, Powerful, Believe

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• Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

  Emily Watson

  Believe, Struggle, Worry

  "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Thinking, Staggering

  "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I do believe in God. That's why I'm alive.

  Eric Massa

  Believe, Alive, I'm Alive

  "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "The Glenn Beck Radio Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.

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• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Prayer, Believe

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• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

  Franz Kafka

  God, Believe, Belief

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Fun

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

  Jack Kemp

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.

  Diego Rivera

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Use, I Can

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• To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Belief, Force

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.

  Kenny Smith

  God, Believe, Intelligent

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• I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.

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• It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Believe, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

  Michael Landon

  Believe, Family Love, People

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• If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

  Shane Claiborne

  Believe, Grace, World

  "What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?" by Shane Claiborne, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Doe, Bows

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