Quotes About Belief

you never knew how things might go on Judgment Day.

But you don't prove anything at all when you say it's something you just can't imagine happening.

que aun cuando muchos se llaman cristianos, no saben lo que es un cristiano, o si lo saben, aún no saben lo que implica ser un cristiano.

Doctrina: Hay muchos en el mundo que son solo casi cristianos; muchos que están cerca del cielo, pero nunca están lo suficientemente cerca; muchos que están en medio de un poco de salvación, pero nunca disfrutarán de la más mínima salvación; tienen el cielo a la vista y, sin embargo, nunca verán a Dios.

Doctrina: Que hay muchos en el mundo que casi "lo son", pero al final son solo casi cristianos

Para que un hombre sea completamente cristiano, debe haber luz en sus pensamientos y fervor en su corazón; conocimiento en la comprensión y celo en los afectos.

Ahora, cualquiera que sea la medida de conocimiento, que un hombre pueda tener de Dios y de Jesucristo, si no es un conocimiento para salvación (conocimiento unido con afecto y aplicación), él es solo un casi cristiano.

Él solo conocerá correctamente a Dios, si sabe cómo obedecerlo, y le obedece de acuerdo con su conocimiento de Él:

los dones pueden hacer de un hombre un erudito, pero la gracia hace de un hombre un creyente. Ahora bien, si los dones no pueden cambiar el corazón, entonces un hombre puede tener los mejores dones y, sin embargo, ser sólo un casi cristiano.

I didn't want to open up to the kind of pastor who believed that, while I told him my story, God was secretly and inerrantly revealing the rest of my story to him. I've had pastors make assumptions about me before. I'd tell them a story or two, and they filled in the blanks with their own theories and conclusions about the condition of my soul.

There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law.

Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it.

it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

In the mind there is no absolute faculty of willing and not willing, but only of particular volitions, namely, this or that affirmation, or this or that negation."50 We do suspend our belief in some ideas, in a manner of speaking, Spinoza allows. But what this really means is that we affirm some other idea—namely, that the first idea is uncertain.

She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

Whatever people say they believe in terms of spirituality and religion, what they do when they are sick and in need reflects the true basis of their belief system.

A strong spirit can change and achieve everything. I know