Quotes About Belief

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Though in death I forever cease to be, yet will I trust him.

I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result.

On Columbus's later voyages, his crew happily accepted godhood—until the Taino began empirically testing their divinity by forcing their heads underwater for long periods to see if the Spanish were, as gods should be, immortal.

Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.

In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It

God regenerates (John 1:13) according to His will (James 1:18) through the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5) when a person believes (John 1:12) the gospel as revealed in the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

The subject is salvation, one of the greatest themes that could ever challenge the mind of man. Confusion about salvation means disaster, for the message of the Gospel is a matter of eternal life or eternal death.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

The image that the Word creates in you is already a reality in the spirit realm. When you speak God's Word from your heart, then faith gives substance to the promises of God.

No man shall take me out of His hand for I have eternal life (John 10:29).