Quotes About Belief

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.

I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.

Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.

The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time….. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief." On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.

Avid TV viewers are more likely than others to believe their neighborhoods are unsafe, assume that crime rates are rising, and overestimate their odds of becoming a victim, and they are more likely to own guns.

To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called "gospel." You are properly called a "Christian" when it's obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world tries to impose on you, and that the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you.

No man can follow Christ and go astray.

I trust the people.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.