Quotes About Belief

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

We are not Protestants any more—just ''non-Catholics''! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.

Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. —J

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed). The fact beats ceaselessly into my brain these

Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him. —JAMESGILMOUR OF MONGOLIA

Such a sinning, repenting ''easy believeism'' dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar.

Under our form of government we count, we do not weigh, opinion. The fact, therefore, that a certain sound principle may long be recognized as such by an economic-informed few is of little consequence. If the majority is wrong in its thinking, then the direction of the whole is more than likely to be equally wrong.

I have no idea where I am going. . . . But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

One must be crucified on one's own private cross.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

I believe profoundly in two rules. Justice and mercy – they seem to me the foundation of all civilized life and society, if you include under mercy, toleration.

Hoy el papa actual vive repitiendo la sentencia medieval, superada por el Vaticano II, de que «fuera de la Iglesia no hay salvación»... Pensar así es tener poca fe e imaginar que Dios tiene el tamaño de nuestra cabeza.

We are convinced that believing in God is worthwhile. We thereby want to express the conviction that it is not death that has the last word but life; it is not the absurd but the full meaning in life that wins the day.

People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Lei non crede in niente - disse il professore. - Oh sì, in qualche cosa. Forse in troppe, per i tempi che corrono.

C'è sempre stato bisogno che l'uomo intelligente fosse il portabandiera di una ideologhia... L'uomo professionalmente libero, che non crede in nessuna ideologhia e invece si colloca di fronte alle cose con spirito critico, non ha fortuna.

Naturalmente... Ma sa com'è? Una volta, in un libro di filosofia, a proposito del relativismo, ho letto che il fatto che noi, ad occhio nudo, non vediamo le zampe dei vermi del formaggio non è ragione per credere che i vermi non le vedano... Io sono un verme dello stesso formaggio, e vedo le zampe degli altri vermi.

Il fatto è che i cretini, e ancor più i fanatici, son tanti; godono di una così buona salute non mentale che permette loro di passare da un fanatismo all'altro con perfetta coerenza, sostanzialmente restando immobili nell'eterno fascismo italico.

Ad un certo punto della vita non è la speranza l'ultima a morire, ma il morire è l'ultima speranza.

Io credo nel mistero delle parole, e che le parole possano diventare vita, destino; così come diventano bellezza.

Non c'è fuga, da Dio; non è possibile. L'esodo da Dio è una marcia verso Dio.

I do not like Christians. They shake the tree of life, forbidding it to bear fruit, and they scatter to the wind it's fragrant blossoms.

Isabella had spent her whole life chasing the capricious goddess Fortuna: what we call Chance or Luck. She held the Humanist belief that the vicissitudes of Chance could be managed-if not entirely, then to a greater extent than if she succeeded them, the result would be Virtú. In some senses this encapsulated the meaning of the Renaissance.

You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.