Quotes About Belief

Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you're capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

But Comey and company came to realize—as others would soon learn in the crucible of Donald Trump's presidency—that they had no idea of the magnitude of his flaws, of his narcissism, sociopathy, and ignorance. Trump's only concern was his feral self-interest, his only belief was that those around him existed to serve him.

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

He urges them to stop believing that they are "conservative" and should therefore tolerate a little the drift into fascism, the better to get tax reform.

I'm not sure Trump himself is one of these fundamentalist Christians. He just worships himself.

Break a leg, Gilly!" Kayla appears out of nowhere. "You're not supposed to say that, remember?" she whispers. "It offends the mermaids since they don't have legs.

We are not promised a pain-free life but are given the tools to survive: God and people. It is enough.

Jesus always colored outside of the lines here, extending grace and healing to those well beyond His people group. He often healed people first; they believed second.

Wise women know what to hold onto and what to release, and how to walk confidently in their choices—no regrets, no apologies, no guilt. I deeply believe God wants this freedom for us. Scripture instructs us to live presently and joyfully, resisting worry and believing Jesus set us free for freedom's sake.

The Holy Spirit is an incredible leader and healer. Don't shove it down; lay your junk on the table and deal with it. Address the stuff. Forgive, release, acknowledge, confront, feel the feelings, let something go, believe the truth, whatever you need to do. Then dust your hands off and get ready to go.

God's Word is a place where the by-the-book people and the I-didn't-know-there-was-a-book people can live in harmony.

But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.

Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.

Many believers get together to discuss a great book and mistakenly call it Bible study. That is, in fact, a book club with a spiritual theme.

Maybe we can lay down our fear and criticism, self-directed and otherwise. Maybe if we let ourselves off the hook, we can let others off, too, and discover that God was in control all along, just as He tried to tell us. He is good at being God.

Honestly, I love Jesus but sometimes His followers give me a migraine.

Theology is either true everywhere or it isn't true anywhere. This helps untangle us from the American God Narrative and sets God free to be God instead of the My-God-in-a-Pocket I carried for so long.

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

Theology very naturally follows belief, but belief very rarely follows judgment.

What is good for the Kingdom is good for us all.

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.

Lean into love and away from fear.