Quotes About Belief

Just as it is written in this passage, the Words of the prophecy of God that says Jesus would take-on and atone for the sins of mankind was realized. All people who believe in Jesus must believe in both the baptism and the blood of Jesus including the gospel of the atonement for sins. Because John the Baptist, the preparer of the gospel of Heaven, had passed-on the sin of the world onto Jesus for all eternity by

Jesus, whoever now believes in this Truth can receive the remission of sins. By him having borne witness to 'the gospel of the atonement for sins,' where he passed-on all the sins of the world onto the Lord, many people have been able to received salvation from sin by believing and having faith in this Truth of salvation because of John's witness.

The phrase here, "For John came to you in the way of righteousness," speaks of the work of John the Baptist, the last High Priest of the Old Testament (Matthew 11:13), who passed-on all the sins of the world onto Jesus by baptism. Why do you think tax collectors and the harlots believed in the baptism of Jesus where John the Baptist passed-on the sins of the world onto Jesus?

by having faith that Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb God had sent to save them from all their sins.

Those of you who from now on know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, understand it and believe in it with the heart are all righteous.

If you believe that all your sins have been passed-onto Jesus, you will be called 'the righteous', because you are without sin by faith, and only the righteous who believe this will go to Heaven according to the law of the grace of God.

Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

The Persian belief in the advent of a saviour who will make mankind immortal seems to reappear in an intenser form in the days of John the Baptist

The devotional spirit is not less intense among, the pagans of the prairie than it was among the ancient Israelites and the early Christians.[128]

The greatest heresy is not to believe in witchcraft" (haeresis est maxima opera maleficarum

True enough, the idea of a personal Devil is as imaginary as a fairy, or an elf, or a hobgoblin;

The polytheism of the popular Hinduism[38] is practically a pantheism in which the various deities are regarded

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.

There is nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Erst wenn ich dich als Schatten berühre, glaubst du mir meinen Mund, der klettert mit Spät- sinnigem droben in Zeithöfen umher, du stößt zur Heerschar der Zweitverwerter unter den Engeln, Schweigewütiges sternt.

This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived.

The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things...

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior; an identity of being 'on the right' has become a lazy way of feeling 'realistic'.

es imposible que los dos estén en lo cierto. Sí es posible, en cambio, que los dos estén en un error

While few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a sort of decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that makes up for the paltry lack of evidence for what one is trying to believe. By contrast, biblical faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in and commitment to what we have reason to believe is true.

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Some are convinced that the universe has no point. The cosmos is indifferent, deaf to our cries and oblivious to our tears. Human beings are nothing more than molecules in motion—biological organisms trying to survive and reproduce but destined to eventual extinction along with all else in the universe. Is that the story we should believe?