Quotes About Belief

There are some who believe the poem can be a guide, a Virgil, can be a window into a way of being. Do I believe this? Does anyone believe this anymore?

I learned from this episode that a person can totally disagree with another opinion without feeling that the other opinion has to be silenced. Confidence in your idea means that you don't have to make other people wrong for you to be right. Unfortunately, there are many people, among them many religious people, who don't have this attitude.

good people, our belief that what happens to us and our loved ones is what God has willed provides a human being, even when suffering loss, with a great measure of consolation.

I believe That angels breathe And that love will live on and never leave

People naturally have questions. They always have and always will. One of the key functions of apologetics, then, is to respond to questions and clear away objections people have that hinder their trust in Christ.

Most important of all, individual believers can experience the power of the risen Christ in their lives today. First of all, they can know that their sins are forgiven (see Luke 24:46-47; 1 Corinthians 15:3). Second, they can be assured of eternal life and their own resurrection from the grave (see 1 Corinthians 15:19-26). Third, they can be released from a meaningless and empty life and be transformed into new creatures in Jesus Christ (see John 10:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Ng??i ta s? ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? cho là chân lý m?c dù th?t ra nó có th? sai l?m. NhÆ°ng h? không bao gi? ch?u ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? bi?t là gi? d?i.

The Christian faith is an objective faith; therefore, it must have an object that is worthy of faith. Salvation comes not from the strength of our beliefs, but from the object of our beliefs. Yes, salvation comes through faith (Eph. 2:8, 9; John 6:29), but the merit of faith depends upon the object believed (not the faith itself).

would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5

Third, the New Atheists reserve their most venomous attacks for Christianity. While they do criticize Buddhism, Islam, Mormonism, and other religions, their target is clearly the biblical God.

May it not be charged against them!" First Peter 3:15 uses the word defense in a way that denotes the kind of defense one would make to a legal inquiry, asking, "Why are you a Christian?" A believer ought to give an adequate answer to this question. The command to be ready with an answer is directed toward every follower of Jesus—not just pastors, teachers, and leaders.

A man walked into a Christian bookstore in an Arabic-speaking country. "I want your best book on the defense of Christianity." The bookstore manager handed him Evidence That Demands A Verdict in Arabic. As the man left he exclaimed, "I'm doing my dissertation on destroying Christianity." Six months later the storeowner baptized the student who had become a believer.

The LORD is good and does what is right" (Psalm 25:8). "The

The wife said, "That's what it said in the pamphlet: follow in the footsteps of Jesus—but it didn't say how many steps.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

Sometimes you might say something you think is true.

You might cause someone to believe something that is not true by acting a certain way. You are lying when you do this.

Because who would believe the fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival those who were never meant to survive?

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story .

From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

So you don't believe we have souls I guess? and Legs laughed and said, Yeah probably we do but why's that mean we're gonna last forever? Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.