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Quotes About Belief

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.
~ Heather Mercer
I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
~ Henry Miller
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
~ Irving Layton
God did not create us to abandon us.
~ Irving Stone
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
~ Israel Zangwill
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.
~ J. D. Salinger
When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.
~ James MacDonald
I will not fail: God is always victorious.
~ James MacDonald
A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.
~ Jase Robertson
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
~ Jerry Bridges
Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.
~ Jerry Bridges
Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.
~ Jim Burns
I don't want people to think I believe in God.
~ Jim Gaffigan
[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
~ Joan of Arc
I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
~ Joel Osteen
Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.
~ Joel Osteen
Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.
~ Joel Osteen
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
~ John Banville