Quotes About Belief

According to Christian belief, Jesus is our Saviour, not by virtue of what He said, not even by virtue of what He was, but by what He did. He is our Saviour, not because He has inspired us to live the same kind of life that He lived, but because He took upon Himself the dreadful guilt of our sins and bore it instead of us on the cross. Such is the Christian conception of the Cross of Christ.

We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion...What is to-day a matter of academic speculation, begins to-morrow to move armies and pull down empires.

It never occurred to Paul that a gospel might be true for one man and not for another; the blight of pragmatism had never fallen upon his soul. Paul was convinced of the objective truth of the gospel message, and devotion to that truth was the great passion of his life. Christianity for Paul was not only a life, but also a doctrine, and logically the doctrine came first.[6]

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

J. K. Rowling

Don't let the muggles get you down.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

How can we be persuaded to go on preaching, and learn to do so effectively? The essential secret is not mastering certain techniques but being mastered by certain convictions. In other words, theology is more important than methodology.1

She had been raised in a house full of faith, and her parents had obviously instilled unusual confidence in her. She

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I'd done before.

If you do not know how to teach the gospel, you may not truly understand it. And if you do not understand it, you may not be a true Christian.

The Christian faith has no category for believers who are not members of a local congregation.