I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
Ernest Holmes

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve Martin

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Bear Bryant