Quotes About Belief

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is materialistic philosophy masquerading as empirical science. The attitude is that life had to have developed this way because there's no other materialistic explanation.

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here—just what works for you.

To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn't have that much faith.

Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: "A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.

Pursue God. Pursue his will. Then trust him to reveal it.

In our limited understanding, I think we often try to work things out and then ask God to get involved. In reality, he expects us to wait on him—to trust him. Not in a passive way, though. Waiting means to leave the details to him while we go about the work he's put in front of us.

When I was appointed a member of the Twelve, I said from this pulpit that I would rather have my children enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost than any other person or individual in the world; and I feel the same today, for them and for me, and for all of you.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded…. "What do you have for directions?" And Dad… said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

Being convinced that reason operates automatically within him he orders his life and his government upon emotion and superstition.

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice. And I also believe individuals are always smarter and better adapted to survival, at least in the long run, than any institution.

Both the Pollyannas and the Cassandras are wrong, and both stand in the way of social justice, the former by condemning us all to catastrophic climate change and the loss of other vital ecosystem services for the sake of profit; the latter by condemning us all to a hair-shirted existence and refusal of further human development due to a romantic, unscientific belief in a static, unchanging balance of nature.