Quotes About Belief

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

La fe que la Biblia enseña no se opone a la razón.

we are called to see the gracious hand of a designing God in our lives.

La fe cristiana no es un salto a la oscuridad. Es una confianza bien puesta en la Luz del mundo, Jesús.

Antitheism provides every reason to be immoral and is bereft of any objective point of reference with which to condemn any choice.

Psalm 37," he said. " 'The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.' God has it all

the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, though it is a story

There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life. The Christian, however, has always been willing to subject the Bible to the severest analysis and is able to come out, knowing that it can survive the blade of the skeptic.

I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has three hundred and thirty million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive. Truth by definition excludes. You

Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His [Jesus'] name unmistakably resplendont or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction.

Contrary to what is popularly believed, deep in the heart of India, especially with the Nambudiris, society is quite matriarchal. Her step of faith in Christ, therefore, was a bigger blow to the family than one

Una convicción no es una mera opinión; es algo tan profundamente arraigado en la conciencia que cambiarla por otra sería cambiar la esencia de lo que somos.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.

La fe no le servirá de nada si el Dios que usted sigue, adora y a quien dedica su vida no es real.

Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

Chet Raymo is professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is a convinced naturalist with a strong mystical bent. Few writers in our time are able to open up vistas of grandeur in the world of objects and entities as he does. In his book Skeptics and True Believers:The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, he illustrates in his brilliant and inimitable style the marvels that are all around us in this universe.

The problem of pain has remained the single greatest question, not only for the skeptic who uses it as an excuse to doubt God's existence, but also for the believer who questions God's purpose.

But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known—not the famous, not saints, but

friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.1

Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction.