Quotes About Belief

Belief in a better future is an amazing gift.

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is somethings simply because it would be reassuring.

while some may doubt whether there be a God at all, nobody supposes that there is more than one.

As soon as a man has chosen a side in war, he's already picked the wrong one.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

I was learning it was possible to love more than just God. In fact, I was learning it was better to love more than just God.

Ne verujem, prošaptao je otac Zunder, u onog boga koji misli da je ljubav greh.

I am far from perfect. You have made me all too aware of that. But for whatever it's worth, I believe I am my best self - my truest self - when I'm with you.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life.

As noted by Ronald Inglehart, director of the World Values Survey, people in richer countries tend to be less religious, but the United States is an exception, as a rich country with a high rate of religious observance and belief; see figure 6.1.

Unbelief is an evil thing; nothing puts so great a price on precious Christ as faith does. It is certain that unbelief keeps love at a very low exercise; likewise, unbelief hinders the grace of mortification. I can hardly believe that a Christian under the practice of unbelief can attain the mortification of any lust because he cannot take hold of Him in whose strength only will lusts be mortified.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

for your 'transactions,' as you call them, is derived from the

From my limited and immature child's point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the United States of America, along with the original disciples of Jesus, an uncalculated number of genuine Christians who had lived throughout the ages, and many but not all of those mentioned in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which I first read at the age of eight when I found it on my parents' book shelf.

A deep strain of anti-Semitism ran through the teachings and sermons of many fundamentalist leaders such as Ham and William Bell Riley.

And it was Texas that turned out to be especially congenial to the development of Christian fundamentalism in America.

The alternative to Deism was a more profoundly personal religious experience such as that offered by the revivalism of the Great Awakenings.

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

you'll have to forgive me, darling, I am old-fashioned, I believe in General Motors and the clarity of the gods . . .