Quotes About Belief

Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to us in this living Word.

The believers of the future will be brought into the near presence of Jesus, not just in the sense that the stories of his life will be retold, but because the apostolic preaching, by the action of the Spirit, makes Jesus present.

Marilynne Robinson has written that "fear is not a Christian habit of mind.

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

What child is this? "The Infinite has become a finite fact." Everything depends on this, or the nativity story is just a child's fable that no thinking adult can believe.

verse 4 in chapter 14, for instance: "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).

I'm lucky. My family and friends believe in me a lot.

My family background was deeply Christian.

People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.

You need to be a fan of your own team.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

No dream is far away.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn't quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.