Quotes About Belief

Hope and experience take two different sides of an argument.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

Do you remember when you found out there was no Santa Claus? I was so upset I didn't think I'd be able to do the show.

Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

We are safer with Him in the dark than without Him in the sunshine.

When I cannot feel the faith of assurance, I live by the fact of God's faithfulness. Matthew Henry

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him (Ps. 37:7).

Every difficulty and every temptation that comes our way, if we receive it correctly, is God's opportunity.

Let God form your plans about everything in your mind and heart and then let Him execute them.

However dark the nows may be in your experience, the afters of God are worth waiting for! As we think of God's dealings with His children we are impressed with His leisureliness. God's ways may be hidden, but Wait for God's Afters!

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but simply taking God at His word. Christmas Evans The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. George Mueller

Believe God's Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your

Active faith gives thanks for a promise even though it is not yet performed, knowing that God's contracts are as good as cash. Matthew Henry

If we would only move straight ahead in faith, the path would be opened for us . But we stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles at all.

The problem of getting great things from God is being able to hold on for the last half hour.

I still believe that a day of understanding will come for each of us, however far away it may be. We will understand as we see the tragedies that today darken and dampen the presence of heaven for us take their proper place in God's great plan—a plan so overwhelming, magnificent, and joyful, we will laugh with wonder and delight. Arthur Christopher Bacon

We must learn to take God at His Word, and go straight on in duty, although we see no way in which we can go forward. The reason we are so often balked by difficulties is that we expect to see them removed before we try to pass through them.

bitter woe? Nay! but the time to trust Is in this moment's need, Poor, broken, bruised reed! Poor, troubled soul, make speed To trust thy God. What is the time to trust? Is it when hopes beat high, When sunshine gilds the sky, And joy and ecstasy Fill all the heart? Nay! but the time to trust Is when our joy is fled, When sorrow bows the head, And all is cold and dead, All else but God.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. This couldn't be it. It had been diverted elsewhere, to somebody else, and he'd been issued this shitty substitute faux life instead

It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life decisions based on its horoscope in USA Today would be right more often than you. But in this case, yes, you were right. Don't spoil it.

I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.