Quotes About Belief

Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between the visible and the invisible world was just not there for him. It had become natural for Lewis to live ordinary life in a supernatural way.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

no matter what my small sufferings are, I have a choice. I can either let them make me bitter, or I can meet them with the confidence that God will not abandon me.

Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasiado simple, esa decisión ha condicionado a partir de entonces cada uno de los momentos de mi vida. Solo puedo llamarlo una conversión.

Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.

I was lonely enough and homesick in the years that followed. My father died while I was studying in Rome, and I could not be at his funeral. When I was at last ordained in Rome, none of my family could afford to make the trip to be with me. Yet through those years I never once wavered in my conviction that God had called me for the Russian missions; I never doubted that I would one day serve him there.

There are movements of the soul, deeper than words can describe and yet more powerful than any reason, that can give a man to know beyond question or arguing or doubt that digitus Dei est hic (the finger of God is here),

Every moment of every man's life is precious in God's sight, and none must be wasted through doubt and discouragement. The work of the kingdom, the work of laboring and suffering with Christ, is no more spectacular for the most part than the routine of daily living.

If God had preserved him this far, a prisoner would tell you, if he had not rejected him with all his transgressions but had kept him alive until now, then surely he would not abandon him. That was the source of their confidence and trust in him.

Children are told to humor their elders who still believe in such things and have never had the scientific and technical training that would show them how incompatible such notions are with modern science.

In failure or in success, in health or sickness, in sorrow or joy, man must turn to God, must trust in God, believing in him more each day, loving him more each day, in preparation for a future life with him.

Death to them was not an end, but a beginning, a passage into eternal life.

Only man can freely choose not to serve his Creator.

The success of any enterprise depends on personal effort, persistence, prudence, and basically on deep faith in God.

work as if everything depended upon him and pray as if everything depended upon God.

En realidad, no es cuestión de confiar o no en Dios, porque de hecho deseamos confiar en Él: es cuestión de nuestra fe última en su existencia y en su providencia, y exige el acto de fe más puro.

There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.

Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.

somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.

is not really a question of trust in God at all, for we want very much to trust him; it is really a question of our ultimate belief in his existence and his providence, and it demands the purest act of faith.

A resolute, decisive, open, courageous character with deep faith in God is what you want to develop.