Quotes About Belief

He found it funny that his socialist friends did not actually want to live in such places either. "I realized that socialism is not a political proposal, not an economic plan. Socialism is the residue of Judeo-Christian faith, without religion. It is a belief in community, the goodness of the human race and paradise on earth.

And the Trumpified Right had far greater confidence in the ability of the state to coordinate activity and attain its desired outcomes. The basis of this faith was unclear.

In the Randian cosmology the dollar replaced the crucifix. Christianity, she said, is "the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal.

How good, and how strong, it is to take a principled position

What you can vividly imagine ,ardently desire and enthusiastically act upon shall surely come to pass .

I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.

The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.

The wretchedness of the condition was perhaps best conveyed by the old saying that those suffering from seasickness believe they will die on the first day, are sure they will on the second, and hope they will on the third.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.

In Christ there are no dead and sapless branches, faith is not an idle grace; wherever it is, it brings forth fruit in works.

Those that multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for, whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough.

Strong faith is often exercised with strong trials and put upon hard services.

It is the grace of God only that will secure us, and that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor

God is to be trusted in the use of means.

We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.

It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration

those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain.

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

Christ is the author of salvation to those only that obey him.

God's word will stand, and we shall get nothing by disputing it, or delaying to submit to it.

The foundation of Christian practice must be laid in Christian knowledge and faith.