If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Soren Kierkegaard

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Oprah Winfrey

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison