Quotes About Belief

and one who has not lived through it could never believe what happened.

To this day historians of the Resistance persist in the belief that no women led Resistance networks, blatantly ignoring the work of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade," the British historian J. E. Smyth noted in 2014.

He was thinking that maybe love was like starting a fire with two sticks. You've always heard that it's possible, but how likely is it?

Debbie wondered if it was true that there was only one person in the world for every person, and if she had already met him, and she either had to find a way to be around him again someday or always be alone. Romance-wise. She didn't quite believe this. What seemed more likely was that there were at least five or six people scattered around the globe who you could bump into and, wham, it would be the right thing.

After that, of course, though he recovered later, nobody was about to believe any tales he had to tell about little live men.

Myths and superstitions have power over us only to the extent that we believe them, but when we believe, we live completely under their spell

If he has none to give him pain, he has none to give him pleasure. She never expressed doubts about the way she raised children..she continued to believe mothers influence was paramount in her children's future development, she also understood no one was perfect.

Humans are very attached to outcomes. We say we trust God but behind the scenes we work our fingers to the bone and our emotions into a tangled fray trying to control our outcomes. We praise God when our normal looks like what we thought it would. We question God when it doesn't. And walk away from Him when we have a sinking suspicion that God is the one who set fire to the hope that was holding us together.

My identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to me. Only then can I find a stability beyond what my feelings will ever allow. The closer I align my truth with His truth, the more closely I identify with God—and the more my identity really is in Him.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.

Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's impossible.

My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

When my brain begs me to doubt God, as it most certainly does, I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions; I turn from the Tree of Knowledge and fix my gaze on the Tree of Life.

The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.

No person's rejection can ever exempt me from God's love for me. Period. No question mark. The most beautiful love story ever written is the one you were made to live with God.

Hoping doesn't mean I put myself in harm's way. It doesn't mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God's sovereignty.

Rejection isn't just an emotion we feel. It's a message that's sent to the core of who we are, causing us to believe lies about ourselves, others, and God. We connect an event from today to something harsh someone once said. That person's line becomes a label. The label becomes a lie. And the lie becomes a liability in how we think about ourselves and interact in every future relationship.

My imperfections will never override God's promises.

If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.

In God's plan, you've got a part to play. If you know it and believe it, you'll live it.