Quotes About Belief

God's promises are only as good as the extent of his sovereignty.

If you obey for a thousand years, you're no more accepted than when you first believed; your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

You no longer have to hope and pray that someday you will measure up, because Jesus has measured up on your behalf.

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

The things you say to you about yourself, about God, and about life are very, very important because they are formative of the way you act and react to the things that God places in your life

The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.

Dependency means living, as a leader, as if I really do believe that my walk with God is a community project. It means that because of the blinding power of remaining sin, I give up on the belief that no one knows me better than I know myself. Dependency means no longer being afraid of exposure, because I really do believe that there is nothing that could be known, exposed, or revealed about me that has not already been addressed by the person and work of Jesus.

The joy or complaint of your heart always shapes your willingness to trust God and to do his will.

La confianza es estar tan convencido de que puedes apoyarte en la integridad, fortaleza, carácter y fidelidad de la otra persona que estás dispuesto a ponerte bajo el cuidado de él o ella.

For the believer, fear is always God-forgetful. If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

We don't offer people a system; we point them to a Redeemer. He is hope.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

proceeded to try to force his beliefs down nature's throat. Strange to say, sometimes he was right, importantly right as you will see. Up till now (it was in the late eighteen

It is well established that you will feel uncomfortable when there is a discrepancy between what you think and what you do. This is known as cognitive dissonance.

When it comes to weighing up evidence, we like to think of ourselves as deliberative and detached. We think carefully about the arguments and form an opinion or a belief in a dispassionate way. In reality, though, our beliefs often come first and then we search for evidence to support them. When the evidence supports a belief, we are proud of being right in the first place.

Modest expectations will also mean that you can avoid false-hope syndrome, whereby we stick with crazy expectations way past the point at which we should have reined them in.

cognitive dissonance.

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

Believing-a-lie mistakes occur because certain people just don't make mistakes when they lie. These are not just psychopaths but also natural liars, people who are using the Stanislavski technique, and those who by other means succeed in coming to believe their own lies. The lie catcher must remember that the absence of a sign of deceit is not evidence of truth.

This distinction between believing-a-lie and disbelieving-the-truth is important because it forces attention to the twin dangers for the lie catcher. There is no way to avoid completely both mistakes; the choice only is between which one to risk more. The lie catcher must evaluate when it is preferable to risk being misled, and when it would be better to risk making a false accusation.

Misinterpreting is not the only route by which someone may believe his or her false account is true.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.