Quotes About Belief

10. You must believe the promises and not merely assent to them. They will be as a meadow of flowers to you and you as a lazy bee to them if you do not really believe in them and apply them. Just as the industry of the bee extracts the honey, so the industry of your faith extracts comfort from God's promises.

Conviction—or the killing work of the law—is the way that leads to Christ, not a condition for receiving Christ.

and false prophets and persecutions, and so on.

eschatology cannot be excluded.

God's grace is our sufficiency in all things—today, tomorrow, and a thousand years from now.

There is a God maintaining and sustaining the integrity of this universe, and it is perfect except when you see it through a glass darkly, or when you see it through a sense that has been to some extent mesmerized by the belief in good and evil.

If you don't accept it as reality, it cannot function against you. That's the secret. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." If you believe there is a sinful person, then sin can be committed against you. If you believe there is a poverty-stricken person, poverty can knock at your door. If you believe there is disease and death, you can experience it.

There are unimportant people in this world, but they are people who believe they are unimportant and that's what keeps them so.

Do you know that every person on earth would have supreme wisdom if there weren't this mesmeric activity keeping it from them? In other words, this belief in two powers? Without that, there is only one infinite consciousness, manifesting itself as individual consciousness. Remember this: God-consciousness is your individual consciousness, and all that God is I am; all that God has is mine: "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

You must remember what I have said to many students who told me or wrote to me that they're discouraged because they don't feel spiritual. My answer has always been: "And you never will." If you meet people who say they feel spiritual, don't believe them; they're lying to you. There is no such thing as feeling spiritual, any more than there is such a thing as feeling moral.

You might as well get used to the idea: All the evils of this world are nothing but pictures in the mind. When you know this, they begin to dissolve.

The problem, Sasha, is not what a person believes in. Verenthane, pagan, Lisan Skyworship, the Kazeri desert mystics – it's all the same, all have the potential to be equally good or bad. The problem is not what things are believed, the problem is how people choose to believe them.

People who think they're already perfect abandon all hope of self-improvement. That's the trap.

You stop asking questions, and you just... accept some smaller version of things. Of the truth.

Relying on the praise of others could become a habit, and those in the habit would seek that praise like an addict and his drug. Strength came through self-belief, and the belief of others without belief in yourself was useless. Chalk was still chalk, even surrounded by granite.

If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.

I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.

When people say our love won't last forever, it sounds like they think anything will.

When it snows, that's just God's way of still not existing.

The terrible things that happened to you didn't make you you. You always were.

The moon landing is not bullshit," Jane said quietly. "The moon landing was faked," Caitlin said. "Everybody knows that." "Fuck you! You were faked!" Jane said. She shoved Caitlin hard against the lockers.

There are people who believe a photo captures your soul. For them, this is a terrible thing. For me, it's one last chance.

Ich muss daran glauben, dass sich Menschen ändern können. Vielleicht irre ich mich, das ist sogar wahrscheinlich , aber ich muss daran glauben, damit alles andere einen Sinn ergibt.

The approval trap can be crippling. The craving for approval is insatiable. In fact, the more you feed it, the bigger it becomes. And eventually, it can become all-consuming. The trap is the mistaken belief that more of the same will lead to freedom. However, it turns out that what is needed is a complete reversal of the usual strategies rather than more of the same.