Quotes About Belief

Debido a que Dios inspiró las Escrituras, crea que lo que lee fue destinado para usted, al menos de alguna manera que se asocia con Cristo, así como para los primeros que recibieron el mensaje. Sin esa actitud, rara vez percibirá la aplicación de un pasaje de las Escrituras a su situación personal.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.

Persevere en la adoración. Clame a Dios pidiéndole que le dé un conocimiento renovado de los «ríos de agua viva» (en referencia al Espíritu Santo) que en Juan 7:38 Jesús prometió que brotarían en todo el que creyera en él. Pero no deje de adorar; nunca se dé por vencido en el desierto. Usted no sabe qué tan amplio es, y podría estar a punto de terminar de atravesarlo.

When you speak the gospel, you share "the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." Sharing the gospel is like walking around in a thunderstorm and handing out lightning rods. You don't know when the lightning will strike or who it will strike, but you know what it will strike—the lightning rod of the gospel. And when it does, that person's lightning rod will be charged with the power of God and he or she will believe.

True spiritual self-discipline holds believers in bounds but never in bonds; its effect is to enlarge, expand and liberate. D. G. KEHL

WHEN IT COMES TO SPIRITUALITY, YOU DO WHAT' YOU DO BECAUSE you believe what you believe. Regardless of the importance you consciously place upon it, theology drives and determines your spirituality.

Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.

Tengo suficiente confianza en la Palabra y en el Espíritu de Dios como para creer que, si la gente ora de esa manera, en el largo plazo sus oraciones serán más bíblicas que si ellos solo crean sus propias oraciones.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Most businessmen are not, contrary to popular belief, 'natural' liberals. Their inclination is towards order and peace. They tend to be anxious and feel vulnerable, understandably so since they seldom know what is going to happen next.

In addition to a pitiable cycle of search and inevitable disappointment, she sometimes chose unsuitable partners for friendship, romance, or marriage - perhaps in the unacknowledged belief that in repeating the unhappiness of the past she might, at last, reverse its effects.

The saints believe what every lover knows Who, gazing on one face, can plainly see The glory latent in the flesh, a rose. If love is what leads lovers to compose Their songs of praise and deeds of charity, Then saints believe what every lover knows.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.

embodied in the notion that there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose.

It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

He didn't know what to do with the immediate future or what to do with long-range future. These questions should be fairly easy to address. Follow God's direction, plain and simple.

It takes a man a while to get his head around the fact that"—she pinched her lips in thought, then nodded—"love makes you stronger, not weaker." She turned to her big brother. "Is that right, Simon?" "Yes, that's right.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...