Quotes About Belief

Cuando creí que iba a perder la razón ante tanto sufrimiento. Así descubrí que un ser humano no puede vivir sin creer.

For Maria had given up praying a long time ago so that God would not know where she was.

When Matisse was asked whether he believed in God, his response was, 'yes, when I'm working'.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

More often than not, superstition wins the day as it lifts the burden of responsibility off human shoulders and places it squarely on the much stronger ones of magic.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

If people don't change their minds, there's no hope for the human race.

The heart always finds a way.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience.

My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.

The difference between you and me, Lord Doctor, is that you believe you are brilliant. I, however, prepare as if I am not.

Power is transient. Power can flow from one person to another. The most powerful person in a room isn't the wealthiest or the one with the most connections. It's the person who believes the strongest, the one who has the most confidence. And, sometimes, it's the person who can make everyone else feel like less of themselves.

Only she who trusts nothing can know real peace.

As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first.

All things are possible to him that believeth.

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.

I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance."360

The phrase "convicted civility" refers to a balance between holding convictions as a Christian and communicating those convictions with civility.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

Many people never see God part the Jordan River in their lives because their feet are firmly planted on dry ground. We're waiting for God to make a move while God is waiting for us to make a move. We say to God, "Why don't you part this river?" And God says to us, "Why don't you get your feet wet?" But if you make a move, you'll see God move. And He can move heaven and earth.