The general belief was that the Paris Hilton name would not lend itself to a hugely profitable and sustainable brand. What’s been proven quarter after quarter is that those people were wrong.

I know God cares, He knows my every need.

Of course. A new consciousness – I that that is the word,’ said the old man after he had thought a moment. ‘That is what I hope it is. You and your African and Colombian,...

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning’s thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In...

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves.

God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But that means there must be at least a certain amount of dissonance. Without...

There’s a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

I used to use business to make money. But I’ve learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

I — I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.’ But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was...

For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and...

Mermaids don’t drown.

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person’s face that anything changes

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a...

I know that what our saints want is not always made clear to us. Sometimes, it is their wish for us to flail and struggle and come to our own choices, not accept ones that...

I was moved beyond belief. I could have cried.

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate...

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

Don’t you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don’t you ever want proof?

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

One reason why the Enemy found this so easy was that, without knowing it, I was already desperately anxious to get rid of my religion; and that for a reason worth recording. By a sheer...

But if God is the flowers and the treesAnd the hills and the sun and the moonlight,Then I believe in him,Then I believe in him all the time,And my whole life is an oration and...

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the...

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act...

Believe me…Nothing is bad, just prove it as right

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit...

God’s image is more than flesh and bones.

The reason that trust is so important has to do with the long-standing belief that you could trust him, even if you don’t always agree with him and don’t understand what he’s doing. The honesty...

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientific humanism and learning will dispel religious belief. Men would rather...

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

If you drop your beliefs, you drop your success. God’s mighty people begin to fall even as achievers when they begin to drop the beliefs they pursue at first.

I got to believe that the people who can really be trusted are those who have kept their promises, not under the influence of pleasing people, but under the influence of doing what they have...

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe he was like those stars. If I looked, he’d be there. I’d lost a lot of things in the years that led up to...

You cannot be escorted by the belief of inadequacy and get to the destination of excellence. Go along with “a can do spirit” because that is the only companion!

I had a dream about you. Before I shaved my beard, I looked like a cat. My facial hair accurately represented my political beliefs, and if you don’t agree, well you can just lick my...