Quotes About Belief

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Fear was a suffocating companion that constantly tried to smother his faith.

You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

We keep walking the right direction in spite of not being able to see the path.

Enough of problems,' Anu said, lifting her teacup to her lips. 'We shall focus on God's goodness. Nothing good or bad happens to us but what it first passes through the Father's hand.

Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?' We can even deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christian or that we are following God. But when adversity comes, the true believer will still weather it standing, though he may go through a fire of doubt. This is God's mercy to us, to strengthen our faith and our hearts. Allow this adversity to bow your knee to God and accept his will.

I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.

I already did. The turnout seemed strong already." "We'll know tonight if he's won." He turned toward the door. "I hope you're right. I'll pick you

God is never cruel. He always has a plan, and he sees beyond this temporal life. It might not be what we'd have chosen, but he always works things together for our good.

And we'll take it one step at a time. God isn't surprised by this. This is where our fear meets the bedrock of our faith.

Everything in this life can fail. I have to keep reminding myself that only God is faithful and never fails us. Things are bleak, life is unfair, but this isn't over yet. We will see God work.

Prayer was their best weapon now.

She'd left God behind long ago, and she doubted he'd care to hear from her now that she was in the worst trouble of her life.

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

There is never any certainty of the unseen. We hope. That's what we do as Christians, and that's what I do with unicorns. Maybe like C. S. Lewis's jewel, that glimpse of a unicorn I sometimes see is a glimpse of Jesus.

Vickie is a Christian who does not believe in UFOs or extraterrestrial life, and when she saw the bright object she thought the end of the world had come. Because she expected to see Jesus come out of the light, she stared at it intently. Colby begged his grandmother to get back in the car. After about three minutes she did so and told him not to be afraid because "when that big man comes out of the burning cloud, it will be Jesus.

Keel writes in Operation Trojan Horse, "the phenomenon had zeroed in on me, just as it had done with the British newspaper editor Arthur Shuttle-wood, and so many others.

Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Like justice, it existed in theory.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.