Quotes About Belief

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.

The courage not to believe in anything.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

True Easter faith is the work of the Spirit, for believing in Christ's resurrection doesn't mean affirming a historical fact, and saying `Oh really?' It means being seized by the life-giving Spirit and experiencing `the powers of the world to come' (Heb. 6.5) in our own living and dying.

Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.

The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14

Miracles/Are merely things we think we don't deserve.

Can I admit to myself that I know about, say, the goodness of love and the evil of murder, while not admitting to myself that I know about the goodness of God and the evil of refusing Him?

morality would be undermined without a belief in divine judgment, but

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard.

In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily.

So that the best believer, if he knows what he says, and says the truth, is but a sinner at the best.

1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!

A person can't tell another person what to put between them and their God.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.