Quotes About Belief

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The people I know who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways - the racists, the sexists, the bigots - never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always sure that they were right... I almost envied them the strength of their beliefs. It must have made life so much easier for them.

This is the greatest challenge of faith, says Polish, "to live with a God we cannot fully understand, whose actions we explain at our own peril.

The multiplicity of desires leads to a multiplicity of paths to God.

Real religion," said Macmurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Joy is not simply a fleeting feeling or an evanescent emotion; it is a deep-seated result of of one's connection of God.

God can change)

Can you surrender to the future that God has in store for you?

Religious experiences are often dismissed—not out of doubt that they aren't real, but out of fear that they are real after all.

Jesus must make decisions on his own, choices that probably seem confusing, and, in this case, offensive to those around him. This is often true of all of us when we make truly free decisions.

though I was by that point rather fond of Saint Jude, I was afraid of what my friends might say if they saw a strange plastic statue standing on my dresser. So Saint Jude was stuffed inside my sock drawer, and was brought out of the drawer only on special occasions.

Few people have "heard" God's voice in a physical way (that is, few sane people).

how do I find God?

being spiritual and being religious are both part of being in relationship with God. Neither can be fully realized without the other.

Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

I'm not saying it's wrong to kill, if you've got a good reason: Self-defense, financial gain, political advantage, or even just to stay in practice. Killing for a rational purpose is fine. Killing because you think it will make an invisible man in the sky treat you kindly when you're dead is deranged.

Holy' is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense," Blasphet