Quotes About Belief

If you were sprinkled as a child or christened, you have not been scripturally baptized. If you were immersed as an adult but had no intention of following Christ, you were not scripturally baptized. If you were sprinkled and have followed Christ since that time, you have not been scripturally baptized. If you were immersed and became a Christian later, you have not been scripturally baptized.

Does that mean that Christ rejects you or loves you less? Absolutely not. Does it mean that you are not saved if you haven't been baptized? No. It means that as a believer, you need to be obedient and be scripturally baptized.

God has an answer for every need you or I could ever experience.

No me gustan las circunstancias que Dios usa, pero sí los resultados.

No matter what you are facing or how seemingly difficult the task may be, always look toward God for victory. He is your eternal, unfailing hope who can move any obstacle when you trust Him.

There is never a time when God gives up on us. His eternal hope is ours, and He gives us the faith we need to hold out during seasons of great difficulty. Moses

Your enemy cannot stand hearing the Lord exalted, so when you do this, he flees from you. Therefore, in moments when fear, doubt, and anxiety arise, recognize the devil's attack and defeat him by praising the name of Jesus!

El Señor es el autor y consumador de nuestras vidas; no solo de nuestra fe, sino de todos los aspectos del potencial que ha levantado en nosotros.

People get into trouble when they look to others to solve their problems. God is our problem solver.

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Our emotions often stand in direct opposition to our faith in the Lord and what He is achieving for us.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

There is no substitute for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

That social organism is embryonic. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to facilitate.

That sort of calculus is easy enough if the potential good is to unidentified people. It's easy to dismiss a faceless abstraction. It's much harder to look a real person in the eye and say: 'For my belief in the inviolability of the eight-cell embryo you must die.' That's often what the 'saviour sibling' cases boil down to.

The notion that Jesus, three days after his death, would arise alone—the firstfruits of the dead—was completely unprecedented in Jewish thought. It would never have occurred in the wildest dreams of the most eccentric first-century Jew. The only rational way to explain its appearance in the New Testament is that it actually happened.

Whether Jesus rose or not isn't affected by the brutality, chauvinism, or downright tediousness of his followers through the ages. It's a matter of mere history: the fact or fallacy of the resurrection is in the same class of alleged facts as the contention that the battle of Agincourt was fought in 1415, or that I caught the 0856 train this morning. And so it is subject to the same sort of historical inquiry.

He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

it has always been a premise that compelled belief is not true faith, that man can come to salvation only if he comes freely, and therefore, in the end, that a man is responsible for his own soul. This element, of course, becomes central in Protestant theology, which emphasizes each individual's personal and unmediated relationship to God. The individual's capacity and therefore right to judge both truth and goodness was a premise of the Enlightenment.

Do what is right according to your beliefs no matter what the cost.

Charles G. Addison