Quotes on Believe

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

I genuinely believe that we will look back on today as a landmark for equality in Britain ... No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. Marriage is about love and commitment, and it should no longer be denied to people just because they are gay.

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.