Quotes About Belief

There are those who mock Jews and Christians who believe God promised the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. But, as noted, even an atheist would have to acknowledge no other people ever established a state there—as Jews have three times—or have claimed it as their own dating back three thousand years.

One of the most important lessons of life—one I believe most people never learn—is that almost everything important is a choice. We choose whether to be happy (or, at the very least whether to act happy), whether to be a hard worker, whether to be honest, whether to be kind, whether to see miracles, and, yes, whether to believe in God (or, at the very least, live as if there is a God).

If a married individual thought as negatively about his or her spouse as the American Left does about America, we would find that individual's proclamations of deep love for the spouse difficult to believe.

9. The God introduced by the Torah began the long journey to belief in human equality—solely as a result of the Torah statement that each of us is created in God's image. Slavery was abolished on a wide scale first in the Western world—by Christians who were rooted in the Torah and the rest of the Hebrew Bible and who specifically cited the Torah doctrine that all humans are created in God's image. 10.

People have too often valued "proper" religious beliefs more than proper moral behavior, and even slaughtered others for not having the right religious beliefs. This is a common occurrence even in our time.

No one can rationally believe doing God's will guarantees one will, for example, never develop cancer or die in an earthquake. If that were the case, we would have to draw the irrational and cruel conclusion that anyone who dies prematurely was being punished by God—or the equally irrational conclusion that all those who live long and healthy lives have lived God-centered lives.

Nothing inspires people to believe in God as much as God-centered people doing good, just as nothing alienates people from belief in God as much as people doing evil in God's name.

For the Left, politics is the way to transform the world; for conservatives, politics is primarily the way to stop the Left from doing so. The former is much more fulfilling than the latter.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.

An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims.

But answering requests is not the primary role of God, and many people who believe it is will become disappointed and perhaps even alienated from God.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism

God made nature, and is therefore not natural. This led to the end of the universal human belief in nature gods (such as rain gods). And sure enough, as belief in the Torah's God declines, nature worship seems to be returning.

Most people believe if God performed a miracle—just one miracle—for them, they would surely and permanently believe in God. But, as explained in the commentary to Exodus 16:2, human nature doesn't work that way. The power of witnessing a miracle wears off quickly, and most individuals soon need (or merely want) another miracle. Over time, most people's attitude toward those who have done something good for them is: "What have you done for me lately?

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

Did God dictate every single word [in Torah]? I don't know!

The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.

As if the above were not enough, Judaism has also held from the earliest times that the Jews were chosen by God to achieve this mission of

A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.

Why within limits? You apparently consider levitation impossible, but wouldn't you have considered wireless impossible if you had been living fifty years ago and somebody had endeavoured to convince you of it?

Psychologically, if we do not reject old habits and beliefs when confronted with the possibility of a better way of being, we end up imprisoned by a tyrannical ego complex that will perpetuate any illusion just to keep control.

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

Just tell em I'm a nobody that's tryin to tell everybody 'bout Somebody that can save anybody.