Quotes About Belief

It is the human wish to be told lies that keeps us where we are.

David Horowitz

I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for reason to kill.

As Robespierre once said of Marat, 'The man was dangerous: he believed in what he said.

The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within ourselves, (d) it magnifies the relevance of our focus, and (e) it causes us to believe that we can think our way out of a situation that is beyond our control or understand something that is unknowable.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats.

the only unfailing guide I've ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love's flame is so fragile… keeping one's love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.

To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.

him, trying to do the same.

Cause I'm a Christian. Or was. And Christ's love doesn't work, is what we feel in the Army. That kind of shit gets you killed here, it's an eye for an eye here, if Christ's love was real this whole war couldn't be happening.

Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God.

It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's.

God has delivered me." David, the future king, has such faith in the future that he speaks of it in the past tense.

It's all right to talk to God about your problems. But sometimes you need to talk to your problems about God.

All we have to do is ask and He will give us the wisdom that we need to get through the storm.

Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. JOSHUA 1:9

from Egypt: "You

God's past faithfulness and compassion toward us is a heritage upon which we build our faith in the future.

Trust in the LORD, and do good. PSALM 37:3

Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and a growing number of evangelical Christians are teaching a doctrine called conditional immortality, which jettisons the concept of hell. They assert that the wicked will be destroyed. This belief contradicts biblical teaching, which says that everyone who has ever lived will be resurrected and judged, and those who are condemned will suffer torment forever (Luke 16:19–31). The

According to all that God commanded [Noah], so he did. Noah did "according to all that God commanded him, so he did" (Genesis 6:22). Therein lies the key and secret to Noah's faith. When God told him to do something, he did it. He was a man who took God at His word.