Quotes About Belief

A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions—discouragement and despair—and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

Strong Christian homes cannot be built out of weak Christians.

Incidentally, that is why complaints against the weather are complaints against God Himself—He purposefully controls it just as it is happening. This is also why natural "disasters" are called "acts of God.

We must learn to interpret our experiences by what we know about God through His Word instead of interpreting what God is like by our experiences. If we do not ground our belief about the nature of God and His disposition to us in the Scriptures, we will reject much of what He says about Himself when we face difficulty.

For the illuminated believer, however, the unifying and satisfying element in every circumstance is always the glory of God, not some sentimental, rose-colored view of the situation that makes him feel better about it.

The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

Believe me, all of you, when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, at least believe on the strength of what I am doing.

Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.

Has anybody noticed that we haven't won a game since we ate that chicken á la king?

Religion is like baseball," said Steve. "Great game, bad owners.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

?adna noc nie jest tak ciemna ani ?adna sytuacja tak rozpaczliwa, ?eby boska interwencja nie mog?a pogorszy? tego stanu.

You believe in aliens?" "I'm dating a dryad, and you pulled a snake out of your phone. You're going to draw the line at aliens?" "If you try to tell me aliens built the pyramids, I am so out of here." "Don't be ridiculous." I waited a beat, then added, "The pyramids were built by mummified elves.

The biggest liar in the world is They Say,'" I muttered. "Douglas Malloch.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe jog as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.