Quotes About Belief

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it is not true because it is "my truth" (relativism). It is true because it is anchored in the person of Christ. Furthermore, truth is anything that corresponds to reality.

First, the fact that something cannot be seen does not presuppose that it doesn't exist. We know that black holes, electrons, the laws of logic, and the law of gravity exist despite the fact that we cannot see them.

Kenneth Copeland: «Como creyente, tiene usted derecho a dar órdenes en el nombre de Jesús. Cada vez que se apoya en la Palabra, está ordenando a Dios hasta cierto nivel porque es Palabra de Él» (Our Covenant with God [KCP Publications, 1987], p. 32).

tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5: 24).

Kenneth Copeland: «Dios no tenía medio de fe duradera o de movimiento en la tierra. Tenía que tener un pacto con alguien… Él tenía que ser invitado, en otras palabras, o no podría venir… Dios está mirando desde el exterior. A fin de tener palabra en la tierra, Él tiene que estar en acuerdo con un hombre aquí» (God's Covenants with Man II [Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1985], cinta de audio #01-4404, cara 1).

Jakie niebo? Jaki Bóg?! Ty nie widzisz, co si? dzieje? Ty nie widzisz, ?e Boga ju? dawno tu nie ma? A je?eli nawet jest – staruszek zni?y? g?os – to on jest po ich stronie.

Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.

Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.

You've got to have faith to make the journey. For some, it might take 40 days; for others, 40 years. And, unfortunately, there will be many that will never see their promise become a reality at all - not because God can't do it - because they don't have the faith to believe that he really can

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.

The man who wavers in his faith is upset by the smallest trifles; the man who is steadfast in his faith can look on calmly at the ruin of all his universe.

Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

I am an atheist.

Meinst du, es gäbe nichts außer dem, was du dir vorstellen kannst?

So when one person has said 'Moses thought what I say,' and another 'No, what I say,' I think it more religious in spirit to say 'Why not rather say both, if both are true?' And if anyone sees a third or fourth and a further truth in these words, why not believe that Moses discerned all these things? For through him the one God has tempered the sacred books to the interpretation of many, who could come to see a diversity of truths.

Imam gospodaricu koju sam dužan da slušam, ona vlada mnom, vama, svetom, ?ak i ovim današnjim svetom napolju, a ta gospodarica je pravda. U nju sam oduvek verovao, verujem i danas, i pravda je jedini putokaz mog postupanja...

I believe the last thing that runs through the brain of a dying man is hope.

Like many city dwellers, they'd had the mistaken belief that spying was only really bad in Berlin and that decency still prevailed in small towns. And like many city dwellers, they had made the painful discovery that recrimination, eavesdropping, and informing were ten times worse in the small towns than in the big city. In a small town everyone was fully exposed; you couldn't even disappear in the crowd.