Quotes about Beliefs

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.

The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about. By think we mean all the ways in which we are aware of things, including our memories, perceptions, and beliefs. The focus of your thoughts significantly affects everything else that happens in your life and evokes the feelings that frame your world and motivate your actions.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion "must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.

The young church was nourished spiritually by apostles who set down their beliefs and messages in a series of letters. The first 13 such letters (Romans through Philemon) were written by the apostle Paul, who led the advance of Christianity through the non-Jewish world.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

myth" in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense "historical" and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held beliefs of the community that tells it.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!