Quotes About Belief

Bad things happen not because we forget to use our common sense, but rather because the incredible effectiveness of common sense in solving the problems of everyday life causes us to put more faith in it than it can bear.

By providing ready explanations for whatever particular circumstances the world throws at us, commonsense explanations give us the confidence to navigate from day to day and relieve us of the burden of worrying about whether what we think we know is really true, or is just something we happen to believe.

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.

Reader, if thou to credit what is here Art slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarce Believe, who saw it all as clear as clear.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

I don't know why I do stuff sometimes. Sometimes I go by the numbers. Sometimes I go on what I feel. Sometimes I go on what I hope.

Everybody can tell you how to do it, but very few have ever done it.... I'm at the point where I don't care. I really don't care. That's the last thing on my mind. I'm doing what I think is right every day. There's a good chance with my background and experience that I know better than most.

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos to kairos. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

Our actions and attitudes in the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering are what determine whether God can shift us into the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities.

When we are properly prepared and the time is right, God can shift seasons very quickly. Overnight, it seems, He transforms dry times into rivers, barrenness into fruitfulness and makes a way where there is no way. Timing is a factor; but when it's right, God causes the shift, and the chronos changes into kairos. Allow this truth to bring faith and encouragement into your situation.

Don't embrace any theology or creed that allows God to lose!

The pilgrims absolutely believed America had a God-given destiny, and our founding fathers did, as well. Throughout our history, America's presidents and leaders have reiterated this belief. John F. Kennedy referenced Matthew 5:14 and Winthrop's famous speech, as did Ronald Reagan and numerous other U.S. Presidents.4 Though modern day revision-ists try to rewrite and remove our history, the truth will always trump their lies.

God is never so preoccupied that He is not really listening to you.

Don't lie to someone who believes in you.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.

We must learn to live with contradictions, to have faith in skepticism, to advance toward the solution of a problem by admitting as a possibility that it may be insoluble.

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.