Quotes of: Religious-beliefs Keyword

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

Si Robertson

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Brian May

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Paul Keating

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

Elia Kazan

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.

Barbara Jordan

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

Lewis Black

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Angus T. Jones

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

Julia Cameron

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Jeff Miller

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Patricia Ireland

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Walter Kaufmann

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Clarence Darrow

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Kapil Dev

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Catherine Ashton

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

David Puttnam