Quotes About Belief

Effective scaling depends on believing and living a shared mindset throughout your group, division, or organization.

there is little reason to believe that managers or other authorities will make more accurate predictions than anyone else about which new ideas will succeed and fail.

If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you are right.

smart people who get bad grades are listening to their inner voice, doing what they believe is interesting and right.

In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. – That he will not torture the forgiving. – Upon that rock I stand. – That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand. The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come. Upon that rock I stand.

Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist in believing but in doing. Collected works volume 1

Think of the lives it has blighted – of the tears it has caused – of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. … It is a great pleasure to drive the fiend of fear out of the hearts of men, women and children. It is a positive joy to put out the fires of hell.

contrast with, say, Whig historians, such as Macaulay in nineteenth-century England, is striking. The Arab historians had no belief in the progress of humanity. Instead they waited for God to declare the End of Time.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. – John 3:16

fear is overestimating your problems and underestimating your God. How often we minimize our Savior and maximize our storms!

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. – 1 John 4:15

The believer who is in a healthy state rejoices mainly in God Himself. He is happy because there is a God, and because God, in His person and character, is what He is. All the attributes of God become continual sources of joy to the thoughtful, contemplative believer. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in his sermon "The Joy of the Lord.

We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. – Acts 4:20

Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead. – Matthew 28:5–7

Robert J. Morgan

We don't understand faith until something goes wrong. Faith is a matter of relying on the Lord when our story encounters a problem.

The Lord Jesus Christ is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. He knows the end from the beginning, and sometimes so-called delays occur in life because God is aligning circumstances for our benefit. We have to wait on Him and trust Him, knowing His timing is as perfect as He is.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. – Ephesians 2:8

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My words and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. – John 5:24

Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. – Romans 4:20–21 NIV

I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. – Habakkuk 1:5 NIV