Quotes About Belief

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

I believe that God is very real.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

God wants an opportunity to prove who He is.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

Death is the inventor of God.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?