Quotes About Belief

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God.

You're my religion, you're all I've got

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin," she told him. "Even He can't do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.

We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we stop looking for magic.

who think of themselves as "spiritual rather than religious" tend to equate religion with belief, and therefore with doctrine and authority; with

Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.

capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

The best thing about religion is that it makes for heretics.

Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.

I have come to realize, after over thirty years of studying human creativity, that the great divide is not between those who are artists and those who are not, but between those who understand that they are creative and those who have become convinced that they are not.

The great tragedy that I have witnessed over and over again is that we keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we're not good enough, we're not smart enough, we're not talented enough, we're just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.

If you find yourself living in a world where there is only cynicism, negativity, and distrust, you need to realize that it's a world of your own making. There is a more beautiful world out there to be known, but you have to be able to see it. You have to want it. You must be willing to risk, to step outside of what you know, to live in a more extraordinary unknown.

If we choose to live a small life, we do not make enough room for a big GOD.

You were created to be free. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you're also called to be free.

Isn't it interesting how we think of grace as something less than the law?

There are times when you will choose to walk with God and you will feel as if you are walking alone. Yet you must not forget that you are never alone: God is always with you.

Tienes que creer en nuestra amistad".

for believers in persecuted countries. We champion their sacrifice and willingness to stand for Christ, even at the cost of their own lives. Yet we consider laying aside our traditions and cultural preferences as an unreasonable expectation.

Worry projects a negative view of the world around us. Worry projects a negative future. Worry is an act of faith. It is a deep-seated belief in worst-case scenarios. Worry is not rooted in reality but does affect our reality.

Si se vive de acuerdo con la conciencia, la fe no es tan importante.»

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