Quotes About Belief

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of all joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice.

This is how editor R. J. K. Law restates it: "The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him, is not to believe that he loves you.

How will we live if we think we need to earn God's approval? How will we live if we are confident we have God's approval in Christ?

Although believers are now pilgrims on earth," says Calvin, "yet by their confidence they surmount the heavens, so that they cherish their future inheritance in their bosoms with tranquillity."[44] What frees us from the vain pursuit of earthly treasure is the hope of treasure in heaven (Matthew 6 v 19-20; 1 Timothy 6 v 17-19).

The growth of God's kingdom is synonymous with the spread of God's word. The kingdom grows through the word as it elicits faith.

Owen said, "You can no way more trouble or burden the Father, than by your unkindness in not believing in his love".

May heaven be in my heart by faith, and may my heart be in heaven by spiritual meditation.

Anubis – A god with a man's body and the head of a dog or jackal.

What a strange god to worship. I'm sure he's great at answering your prayers, as long as you want a stick fetching or a cat chasing away.

Millions of people across our great land who want nothing more than to be left alone and pursue their own happiness of believing mean-spirited bullshit. Except society has evolved away from ignorance. And that's where we come in." "How?" "We make being shitty feel good again.

We don't simply say something that's untrue. We make statements so insane that there's no possible intelligent response. Like arguing with some old fart in a rocking chair who claims we never landed on the moon. Any educated person can only laugh. Meanwhile, we've just won over all the non-moon-landing votes.

Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.

Serge bowed his own head and closed his eyes. "God, please protect us from your followers. Amen.

I think a lot of people get turned off on religion, just because some of the followers use love as an excuse to hate.

He said many people believe in God only because of the selfish reward of eternal life …" Another blew his nose. "So in order for our faith to be pure, we have to stop believing in God." "What!" "Only temporarily—just long enough to imagine eternal darkness …" "… Then, once we could handle that, we were free to return and believe selflessly." "… My belief's never been stronger.

I'm not the superstitious type, which is why I don't like superstitious people. They're bad luck.

Children have it all over adults, possessing magical powers of imagination. Then they grow into cynical tall people. That's the whole problem with the human race: reverse metamorphosis. We turn from butterflies into caterpillars. The key to keeping your wings is regular exercise of your kindergarten muscles of make-believe.

You never stop being Catholic. It's like the Mafia or Amway.

Nothing can go wrong now.

Do you think heaven's like that? Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.

But in 1972 Dutch palaeontologists Bert Boekschoten and Paul Sondaar announced that the bones came from an unusual, tiny hippo, which they named Phanourios minor—'small manifested saint'; the cave had been visited for centuries by villagers seeking the fossilised bones of their 'saint', who they believed could cure various maladies.1

it's not so much our technology, but what we believe, that will determine our fate.