Quotes About Belief

Believe it or not, many Christians can make these statements with a straight face.

It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?

An idea does not need to be true in order to be believed, and the same could be asked about any other myth: Santa Claus, William Tell or Zeus.

Faith Works' only tools were prayer, bible study and church attendance

evangelical Christians

Pat Robertson

orthodox claim of scriptural inerrancy and reliability.

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National Association of Evangelicals)

Holy Scriptures

rigid evangelical position.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]

My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

Never forget you are a miracle

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!