Quotes About Belief

Leave all else to the gods.

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

Ten fe ciega no en tu capacidad para el triunfo, sino en el ardor con que lo deseas. Ama a tu arte como a tu novia, dándole todo tu corazón.

Y la madre creyó a la serpiente, porque en todas las religiones de los hombres la serpiente conoce el misterio de las vidas que pueblan los mundos.

The words with which a breakdown is treated are all medicalised - illness, treatment, nurse, doctor, meds - but the mechanism of treatment belongs to retribution: incarnation, surveillance, behaviour monitoring, parole. For crimes against normality, we get a label and a chemical life sentence. I hate this mechanism. I refuse to believe in it.

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

A false idea or a diverging step at the outset may lead to a false religion throughout life, to an imperfect and superficial goodness, as one incorrect figure or sign in an equation falsifies both process and result.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I know of no fact on which Jesus called the people to rest their faith, that they could not as easily judge of, through the medium of their senses as of any facts in nature.

A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Even if you're broken, if you have someone who believes in you then...you can continue moving forward.

People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.

Because you "love" people so much no matter how bleak things are you will never give up on this world.

The truth was never easy, and it was never simple, and it had a way of breaking your heart. Thus men chose its imitation whenever possible and made the world fit the shape that suited them best. Smith believed man created God and Truth both in his own image, and he attached no blame to that. He had long ago decided that most people got along as best they could, trying to be brave, trying to be good, trying to subdue the terrors of life with whatever expectations lay easiest to hand.