Quotes About Belief

Even if today you feel completely unsure that things will work out, keep the faith. God is faithful to His promises.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. —Artemus Ward

Now the mental test of any variety is one of the prime voodoo fetishes of our time, so you may have to argue a little to find out the results of the tests;

Notice that Tabor assumes Jesus couldn't have been resurrected. He was simply reburied by some unknown figure, and the idea that he was resurrected inexplicably emerged later.

In fact, what is amazing about this find is that scholars of every stripe—conservative Christians, liberal Christians, believers in Judaism, and secular Jewish scholars—agreed en masse that the special had missed the mark and hadn't come close to making its case.

In order to work, the Jesus tomb hypothesis has to claim that the disciples died for something they knew was a lie—in fact, something they themselves had fabricated. Further, it has to acknowledge that none of the disciples defected, even when faced with suffering and horrible deaths, including stoning and crucifix-ion. Is that likely?

The analogy was that those who followed Jesus paid a great price for their belief. Their families probably disowned them. Many even lost their lives for their faith. They likely would have been marked by such an event, and thus their memory was likely to be better.

One story is Christianity; the other is best described as Jesusanity. It is an important difference, because Jesus is a very distinct figure in each story and, as a result, often inspires people in quite diverse ways.

The central idea of Christianity is the claim that Jesus is the Anointed One sent from heaven.

However, the documentary reveals how far people will go to try to make Christianity into Jesusanity;

That is why the question of enthroning or dethroning Jesus is so important. Might our spiritual quest to find God be tied to which Jesus leads us and where?

Mark "had neither heard the Lord, nor had he followed him

Twelfth is a brittle fundamentalism that has caused many who came from such a background to eventually grow out of and renounce it.

These images may be well motivated, but they still lack the personal contact with a living God that fuels and solidifies religious expression and life.

No accountability to God comes to mean no accountability to anyone other than those to whom I choose to be accountable.

between Jesus and history or between Jesus and the witness of his followers within history.

Darrell L. Bock

underscore that

One factor is skepticism about institutional religion of all sorts

The making of a champion is one not given the benefit of the doubt on rumored abilities.

You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks. "Yes" I answer hollowly. "You ass.

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

I've learned that my value isn't in how many records I've sold or how many concert arenas I've filled or how many awards I've won. We can't define ourselves simply by how much money we've made or how well we've done on the job or in school. I realize now that my value is in my ideas, my willingness to share in order to help others, my ever-growing desire to stand firm on an issue and not back down.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.