Quotes About Belief

Edward Gibbon said that in ancient Rome all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally useful.

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.

Our faith rests not just on Jesus' example but on his resurrection.

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

The gospel transforms culture by permeating it like yeast, and long after the people abandon belief they tend to live by habits of the soul. Once salted and yeasted, society is difficult to un-salt and un-yeast.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.

Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.

My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.

As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion," cautioned T. S. Eliot.

He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.