Believing Quotes

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.