Quotes About Belief

That person is not righteous who does many works but who, without works, believes much in Christ.

For if we allow sin to remain in our conscience and try to deal with it there, or if we look at sin in our heart, it will be much too strong for us and will live on forever. But if we see that it rests on Christ and is overcome by his resurrection, and then boldly believe this, then sin is dead and nullified.

There is no greater sin than not to believe this article of "the forgiveness of sins" which we pray daily in the [Apostles'] Creed. And this sin is called the sin against the Holy Spirit.

You see, then, that the whole church is filled with the forgiveness of sins. But there are few who really receive and welcome it.o For they do not believe it and would rather rely upon their own works.

as a guide and protection. Trust your divinity, trust your brain

All of this educational work was enormously successful. Millions of Americans accepted the "head philosophy," the belief that Ego and "Social Reality" are neural fictions.

I have been called an irrepressible optimist. The opposite of an irrepressible optimist is a repressive pessimist

Whether you experience heaven or hell, remember that it is your mind which creates them.

On a more fundamental level, research suggests that religious people—all else being equal—are happier than less religious people.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The greatest source of power for Wiccans is, above all else, spiritual truth. Wiccans leave blind faith to the practitioners of other spiritual paths.

Wiccans therefore first come to accept that words are only valuable as signposts and guides that point toward mystic experience.

Some scholars claim that over 250,000 people were put to death for the crime of Witchcraft during the "burning times" in Europe, while others say the number reached as high as nine million.

In contemporary practice, a pagan is someone who follows a polytheistic/pantheistic spiritual system.

Very few people wake up one morning and decide to change their theology. Changes in a person's belief system are seldom that self-conscious.

Whenever you believe that the evil outside you is greater than the evil inside you, a heartfelt pursuit of Christ will be replaced by a zealous fighting of the "evil" around you.

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Has the other person ever doubted your commitment?

For this reason we can say that we all live theologically; that is, the things we believe about God and ourselves are the foundation for all the decisions we make, all the actions we take, and all the words we speak.

He is near, with, and in you. This means there is hope for you, even in relationships that leave you confused and disappointed.

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.

Ultimately, my real problem is a worship disorder.