Quotes About Belief

Dios aún te ama y te hace responsable. Haré todo lo posible para presentarte buenos argumentos. Pero al final tienes que tratar, no con argumentos, sino con Dios mismo.

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

Conclusion On the basis, therefore, of both philosophical and scientific evidence, we have good grounds for believing that the universe began to exist. Since whatever begins to exist has a cause of its beginning, it follows that the universe has a cause of its beginning.

We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

And he clutched it tight in his fist, as if it were his final, brightest hope in a world of tragic illusions.

There are truths, I know with all certainty, that I will never grasp, but that doesn't make them any less true.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion?

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow whos got delusions of adequacy?

This is often the most difficult part of faith—when no more action can be taken and nothing remains but to wait patiently for God to work out His will. It is at this moment that doubts arise and anxiety creeps in (Daily Notes of the Scripture Union).

El creyente más humilde puede ver más sobre sus rodillas que el incrédulo más culto de puntillas. Consideremos

A cat… Good for Mackintoshes only. To others it is considered rosadach, or untoward. The cat is regarded as evil, as shown by the fact that witches are believed to assume this form.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

The postman said there were two ways of meeting experience—you could expect pain or you could expect happiness. "Now, I'm going to look on the bright side until I know to the contrary," he said. "I'm going to look on the bright side, and keep saying everything's going to come out the way I want it to.

putting your faith in Milligan is just a fancy term for despair.

Some people were in the park pretending it was warm, exercising that necessary Scottish thrift with weather which hoards every good day in the hope of some year amassing a summer. The scene was a kind of Method School of Weather—a lot of people trying to achieve a subjective belief in the heat in the hope of convincing one another.

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions

They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him." -- David Benioff; City of Thieves

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.