Quotes About Belief

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

The Bible says that the earth is immovable . It cannot be moved . So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.

When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.

I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

Just because everyone believes something to be true, doesn't make it truth

If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the ends of your toes. Taking reasonable risks in part of the challenge, It's the fun.

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it—life begins in slime and ends in intelligence—whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —HUSTON SMITH16 Some philosophers hold

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

A primary role of traditional religion is deathist rationalization—that is, rationalizing the tragedy of death as a good thing.

As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

No es estúpida esa fe que la gente deposita en el pasado, como si el pasado fuera más cierto que el presente o el futuro?

Según me lo ha explicado ella, o según yo lo he entendido, se obedece porque conviene y se duda porque se piensa. Y si una cosa salva la vida, la otra al parecer salva el alma.

No es fácil que confíes en ti mismo cuando todos confían en que seas alguna otra cosa distinta.

Dicen que todo lo que sube baja y dicen que todo puede reemplazarse y en general dicen todo tipo de tonterías.

No es estúpida esa fe que la gente deposita en el pasado, cómo si el pasado fuera más cierto que el presente o el futuro?

Whereas the British command not only allowed but facilitated prostitution, the American command, operating on the belief that citizen-soldiers ought to remain chaste, would not permit it.

Most Quakers stayed true, many deviated, and all felt pressure from opposing directions: the Revolution demanded they join, their Meetings insisted they not.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don't have to know everything about it; you just do it.

Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!

Bond believes that short people cause all the trouble in the world.

It is joyous for a church to stand together as one and say: "We don't know exactly how this is going to play out. But we're going to trust the Lord and move forward, because all that matters to us is the greater glory of Jesus in our world today.