Quotes About Belief

I am committed to justice because first I believed that truly God so loved this broken, aching world.

What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]

in many cultures, mirrors were believed to be magical objects that granted access to supernatural knowledge.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational and sane. Am I not believed because I am a woman? If Peter Freyd were a man who lived in my neighborhood during my childhood instead of my father, would he and his wife be so believable? If not, what is it about his status as my father that makes him more credible?

A promise is only as good as the person who makes it. The character of the promiser is what gives the promise its value. His promises are meant to ignite faith and expectation and desire, and then to point us to Him. His promises act to bind our hearts to His. His promises turn our eyes toward Him. When our hearts are occupied with who He is, it will not be hard to believe what He promises to do. The revelation of His person is the secret to trusting His promises.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of God's willingness.

It doesn't take long to figure out that in the Christian subculture, the biggest criticism to throw at someone is to question their integrity as a believer.

There are few things that get evangelical Christians more excited than new converts coming into the fold. It's like chum for sharks.

Papa always said you make your own luck. And maybe you do.

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen." Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Believe me," he said simply.

could practically hear Henry's subtle, pointed smile in response to those words. "Then you don't need to worry about me," he said. "Do you?

is not your hero. He's your god.

Avery Grambs is not the result of infidelity on the part of our father, who was faithful to his beloved wife, our mother, for the entirety of their marriage.

Did I want to talk about the fact that I'd disobeyed the pack? That Callum had betrayed me, over and over again; that every day, he'd let me go on believing one thing when reality was another? Did I want to talk about the fact that together, Callum and I had destroyed Ali's marriage, torn my family apart, and brought life to a screeching halt?

If she could do it, there was no reason she shouldn't." -The inheritance games

No one is going to believe you chickened out of anything," he said. From the way he'd phrased that, you would have thought I was fearless.

I don't believe places can be haunted. Only people, and not in a supernatural way. People are only haunted by their pasts.

Shape your reality. Make it true because you say it is.

Call me a skeptic, but I've always thought that it takes more than organic vegetables and talking circles to make an ideal society. Raven

thoughts and words have power, and if you allow your worst fears to form fully, you run the danger of bringing them to life. As