Quotes About Belief

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All have been or believed themselves to be in danger from the pursuit of one they wished to avoid, while they have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

The more illogical a fool's position, the more passionate he's likely to be about hanging on to it.

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through and others who came in mean and will go out mean.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

What a weak, credulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the minds of men. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is.

Wait until you see what I bought," Tina gushed with a female's mistaken belief that a man was ever interested in what came out of a shopping bag unless it had to do with lingerie, auto parts, or sporting goods.

The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion.

I have faith in the jury system.

Though it is hard to wait on God, and though it sometimes seems to us that God is slow, God's timing is always perfect. He is never late. He always acts at just the right time.

Many people think a Christian is someone who believes in God and tries to be good, or someone who lives by the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount (as if anyone could!). But what we and our children must understand is that a Christian is a person who recognizes that he or she is a sinner deserving nothing less than the terrifying judgment of God and who takes refuge only in the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

He chose to live by faith—not the kind of faith that believed God would miraculously show up and shield them from harm, but faith that God would preserve them through harm. Habakkuk shows us that living by faith means banking our hope on God no matter what happens in this life.

Lord, give ________ the ability to recognize you. Don't let ________ reject you. Give ________ the faith to believe, the will to accept, and the right to become a child of God. We long for so much more for ________ than going through this life physically alive but spiritually dead. Call ________ to life so that ________ will never die.

This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.

How to do you know Jesus was Jewish? He was thirty, still living at home, and went into his father's business. Naturally, his mother believed her son was God.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Religions—most of them, anyway—had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will come again, even if you yourself don't live to see it.

Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. That

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage

When God sent His only Son, Jesus, to this earth to bear your sin and mine on the cross, He put a price tag on us—He declared the value of our soul to be greater than the value of the whole world. Whose opinion are you going to accept? Believing a lie will put you in bondage. Believing the Truth will set you free.

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

Surrender to the will of God is a mark of the truly converted.