Quotes About Belief

Ik zat eraan te denken dat ik nooit zou geloven dat dit leven met zijn liefde, streven naar waarheid en geluk, zijn weerlichten en verre ruisen van water in deze nacht zinloos en redeloos was, wie dat ook mocht beweren. Ieder van ons moet – alom en altijd, en tot aan het einde van zijn dagen – strijden voor de verankering van dit leven. == 1946

When you point out to him the palpable absurdity of some false action he has taken he is more than willing to cut it. But what can he do if his own feelings are not able to convince him? Who will guarantee that, having rid himself of one lie, another will not immediately take its place? A grain of truth must be planted under the falsehood, eventually to supplant it, as a child's second set of teeth pushes out the first.

Religion seemed as good an escape route as any, plus it was conveniently compatible with psychedelics.

But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

The Nazis succeeded in taking over the church, 'but gradually,' she writes, 'they became aware that something was wrong... A force was resisting them, something they could not put their hands on -- a belief.

If a man believed he was Hitler, did you send him to the barber for a short back and sides? – 'Teething Problems

Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself.

believing in the magic of life, the power of hope, the cosmic sanity of chance and change, and the unmistakable power of love.

You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.

when someone believes in you before you deserve it, it transforms you.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

Fear is actually faith in the wrong god. Fear is the manifestation of believing that something is about to go wrong. And yet, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18).

Did you notice that trials do not test our character, they test our faith? Faith is fundamentally a relational term—it is not first a matter of what you believe, but of whom you trust. The battle for our trust is as old as Adam and Eve. In the midst of battle, it can seem so complex, but when the dust settles and the smoke clears, the real war is always over the same question—whom will we believe? Whom will we listen to, God or the devil?

Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general.

Without miracles, the Kingdom of God is reduced to words, concepts and good works. Perceived through this paradigm, the Lions, Rotary and Moose clubs would be the ones contending for first place. While words, concepts and works are important, it is imperative that we demonstrate the power of our great King.

he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father" (John 14:12).

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.

Yet, personally, I would rather take the risk of living out God's power instead of reducing my experience in the Spirit down to something I can control.

Christians have authority over the power of the demonic world, and we have power that is greater than the power of the devil!

In other words, one believer's righteous stand has the power to break the curses off anyone in their metron, or sphere of authority (see chapter 3).

I have observed that radical faith is so convicting to doubters, the lukewarm, the halfhearted and the religious who have re-scripted the Bible in a way that requires them to live only in the realm of reason. The truth is, you have to either be the next one out of the boat or find some spiritual excuse to relieve your cowardliness.

We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!