Quotes About Belief

And people pray—millions of them—and claim they are answered. Are they? Was ever supplication sent into that sky by troubled humanity answered, or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for health and success and both are but natural in the marching of events. This is not evidence. But they say that they know, by spiritual uplifting, that they are heard, and comforted, and answered at the moment.

The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10 v 9-10

Practice of the Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence

Your spirit is the true shield.

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Morrie: And the biggest one of those values, Mitch? Mitch: Yes? Morrie: Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

Man's exile is ignorance; his home is knowledge," said the twelfth-century Bishop Honorius of Autun. And Saint Anselm of Canterbury: "I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand.

The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.

me. (Sometimes it's not good to reveal everything that God tells you, unless you are prepared to go through an awful period of criticism and unbelief until it comes to pass.)

You are a product of your own personal environment. What you have observed and what you have been taught affects your level of expectancy and can hinder you from receiving the miracle you need.

me. (Sometimes

A little hope goes a long way.

In future, every time I was tempted to sit back and ask God to solve my problems, I'd be able to roll up my sleeve and be reminded of what I'd learned at the zoo. That God gave us heaven and earth and loving hearts, and the rest is up to us.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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Who cares about theology except the theologians? We are necessary, but less important than we think. The Church is Christ—Christ and the people. And all the people want to know is whether or not there is a God, and what is His relation with them, and how they can get back to Him when they stray.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.