Quotes About Belief

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Prov. 3:6)

Jesus didn't command his followers to feel something. He commanded them to do some things.

Think about this for a moment. What would happen if you were to begin speaking to people's potential rather than their performance? What if you made it a habit to dispense the same type of grace to others as has been poured out on you? What would happen if you intentionally laced your conversations with notions of what could be true of the people around you?

Pursuing a vision requires faith. Pursuing a great vision requires great faith. Pursuing a vision will test, stretch, and at times exhaust your faith. And while you are pulling your hair out down here, God revels in the glory he receives.

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

right standing with God comes through faith in the promises of God.

It's spiritually deforming because fear entices us to place our faith in the person, party, or platform that promises to protect us from whatever they've convinced us we should fear.

Intimate relationships are not built on obedience. They are built on trust. Walking by faith, again, is simply living as if God is who he says he is and that he will do everything he has promised to do. As a person's confidence in God grows, he or she matures.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. LARRY CRABB Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. GOETHE

The reason our evangelistic endeavors result in more recycling than actual conversion is that our methods and approaches assume non-Christian rather than post-Christian.

Are you willing to follow Jesus regardless of where he leads you politically?

But I'm not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the "pray for revival" culture.

Practical teaching that moves people to action is one of the primary things God uses to grow our faith.

To grow our congregants' faith, we must preach and teach for life change.

most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

One of the reasons we ignore the tension when we are making decisions . . . one reason we push through and ignore the advice of other people or the voice of our conscience is: We believe we can predict outcomes. Don't we? We think we know. But we don't know. You don't always predict outcomes accurately, do you? Does anybody? If you've ever been disappointed, you know this to be the case.

Ortopraxia? Ortopraxia es un término compuesto que simplemente significa práctica correcta. En contextos teológicos, la ortopraxia es la forma en la que la ortodoxia (la creencia correcta) se ve en el mundo real. Es el comportamiento tanto ético como moral asociado con una fe o sistema de creencias.

Outsiders aren't about to take our faith seriously as long as they wonder if we do.