Quotes About Belief

mas acredito que uma atitude mental positiva ajuda o corpo a combater a doença. E eu

Don't give up so easily. Stay the course. Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

I'll let John Baillie answer that. He was a distinguished professor who taught theology at the University of Edinburgh. He said: "What makes a man a Christian is neither his intellectual acceptance of certain ideas, nor his conformity to a certain rule, but his possession of a certain Spirit, and his participation in a certain Life.

Fórjese la idea de la persona capaz, empeñosa, útil, que desea ser, y esa idea lo irá transformando hora tras hora en tal individuo... El pensamiento es supremo

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

We truly live at the mercy of our ideas; this is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Many people think of Jesus as our Savior, as the one who will get us into heaven. So the question often is "Have I accepted Jesus as my Savior?" But we never ask the question "Have I accepted Jesus as my teacher?

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

The advantage of believing in the Trinity is not that we get an A from God for knowing the right answer. The advantage of believing in the Trinity is that we then live as if the Trinity is real, as if the cosmos around us is actually beyond all else a community of unspeakably magnificent personal beings of boundless love, knowledge and power.

God's care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped, "There is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians.

And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.

The American Quaker theologian Elton Trueblood, some years ago, quoted Kirsopp Lake's definition: "Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences." Then he adds: "Faith, as the plain man knows, is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations

There is a widespread notion that just passing through death transforms human character. Discipleship is not needed. Just believe enough to "make it." But I have never been able to find any basis in scriptural tradition or psychological reality to think this might be so. What if death only forever fixes us as the kind of person we are at death? What would one do in heaven with a debauched character or a hate-filled heart?

Faith is not opposed to knowledge; faith is opposed to sight. And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

La idea de que puedes confiar en Cristo sin decidir obedecerle es una ilusión generada por el predominio de una «cultura cristiana» descreída. De hecho, no puedes confiar en Jesús sin determinar obedecerle más de lo que podrías confiar en tu médico y en el mecánico de tu coche sin determinar seguir su consejo.

For at least several decades the churches of the Western world have not made discipleship a condition of being a Christian. One is not required to be, or to intend to be, a disciple in order to become a Christian, and one may remain a Christian without any signs of progress toward or in discipleship.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart and spirit.