Quotes About Belief

Tom was okay, but we were just pretending to like each other, hoping that eventually, if we pretended hard enough, it would turn real. Maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't. But Jonah was already real. Even Matthew was real, though I'd never seen him. And they made me real.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that's magic, then I believe in it.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don't have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Anazagasty couldn't agree more. "Confidence," he says, "isn't the absence of doubt, it's the way you respond to doubt.

Everything else can be taken from you, but this power to choose what you think, what you remember, and what you believe about yourself is untouchable.

Jesus is not one among the 28 Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Rather, He is the fundamental Adventist Belief through whom all other "beliefs" unfold and find their meaning.

Among His own people, Jesus is tekton. For the centurion, Jesus is kyrie.

We need to be united in what or who we are "for," not in what we are against. Our enemy is defeated and will soon cease to exist, but we will remain united in Christ, our core, for eternity.

Before they behaved right, before they believed right, they recognized a Voice and they knew—I will follow this Man. I will belong to Him. They left everything behind. All they had was Jesus. They didn't know where they were going, what they were being called to. They weren't sure who He was, but they were attracted to this Person. They recognized something in Him.

Racism might be the most common atheism among Christians today.

Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war.

If William Miller is a great example of someone who started out with a deep conversion, then sought to be theologically correct out of that experience, Ellen White represents those who started out wanting to be right, then learned to love Jesus.

When we are wrong, Jesus is still with us. When we thought we knew what it meant to follow Him and it all blows up in our face, He is beside us. When we've staked our claim on something, then fall on our face in front of everyone, Jesus is still there.

Is it possible to be so blinded by your own doctrine that you would actually take human life in God's name and think you are doing Him a service?

I love being a Seventh-day Adventist. I chose it . . . on purpose. And I love what my church teaches about God.

When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.

Author reads for Seattle; it has always been his city. He reads for the buyer, who has always believed. Author reads one more time to his old man. He smiles at his reader, and reads on through the tears. Author reads on. And Author reads on.

The information. It's out there, Rebbe. This part is not a sin.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.