I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan Watts

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
Jack LaLanne

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda