Quotes About Belief

These Jesus-rejecting Jews "are beloved" of God, he said. Not "were beloved" but "are beloved." Not past but present tense. Even though they chose not to believe the gospel, they are still beloved of God. God still loves them. And not in the way that God loves all people, but with a special kind of love.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

To believe, to act, and to have events confound you—I grant you, that is hard to bear. But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong—how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible.

I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Trust your gut.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.