Quotes About Belief

Only those who believe they can get better make an effort to do so.

If you want others to believe in something and behave according to those beliefs, you have to set the example by being personally involved. You have to practice what you preach.

This belief in a Southern Unionist majority turned out to be a delusion.

Europeans had no prospects other than the "life after life" in heaven promised to true believers.

We have taught an entire generation to be so open-minded that their brains fell out.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774 ]

A man ain't got to stand in church every Sunday to do God's work.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself," my sister Jack told me several times. "Put yourself in God's hands and you can't go wrong.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

because in her heart it was proof that God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

when folks wanna believe something, the truth ain't got no place in that compartment.

didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

I didn't make head nor tails of what he was saying, for I was to learn that Old John Brown could work the Lord into just about any aspect of his comings and goings in life, including using the privy. That's one reason I weren't a believer, having been raised by my Pa, who was a believer and a lunatic, and them things seemed to run together.

Anytime he said something about the will of God, it meant he weren't going to cooperate or do nothing but as he saw fit. He had no intentions of leaving Kansas Territory or turning himself in or paying attention to what any white soldier told him. He would tell a fib in a minute to help his cause. He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

I played it for myself many times, thinking, wishing, hoping that the world would be this open-minded, knowing that God

You hold the copper coin under your tongue during . . . coitus . . . to keep from getting pregnant. My first wife was from Tennessee.

writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible

Annie's Pa was a hero to me. It was him who held the weight of the thing, had the weight of my people on his shoulders. It was him who left house and home behind for something he believed in.

But then, she thought, every once in a while there's a glimmer of hope. Just a blip on the horizon, a whack on the nose of the giant that set him back on his heels or to the canvas, something that said, Guess what, you so-and-so, I am God's child. And I. Am. Still. Here.

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

The true Calvinist is someone whose whole life is devoted to the glory of God.

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

Religion is your seeking after a god in your own image. Christianity is God's seeking you and moving to redeem you by the death of His Son.