Quotes About Belief

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

We have to receive, not achieve, in order to be saved.

For God does not command the impossible, but by commanding he instructs you both to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and he gives you his aid to enable you.333

Are you incapable of doing what these men and women have done? Do you think them capable of achieving this by their own resources and not by the Lord their God? . . . Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? Cast yourself upon him, do not be afraid. He will not withdraw himself so that you fall. Make the leap without anxiety, he will catch you and heal you.

What is necessary is the faith that leads to obedience and to discipleship.

One of the most amazing recent developments is that a number of aggressive atheists are beginning to see the horror of a totally de-Christianized culture and are starting to acknowledge, without themselves claiming to have become believers, that Christianity contributed some great value to our lives and many of the progressive ideals came to birth only as a result of Christianity.

God cannot inspire unrealizable desires.

Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thes 2:3-12)

They were hard and fearless, and had to be enterprising and manipulative in order to survive. Espionage to them was a means to a better life. There was no ideology, morality, or religious belief involved.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

None of God's elect die before they are converted.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.