Quotes About Belief

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.

We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Modern science is dominated by distrust when it comes to our own deepest sense of life, and that distrust is nothing but unbelief.

Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.

Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.

There is thus no objection to the use of the term 'faith' for that function of the soul by which it attains certainty immediately or directly, without the aid of discursive demonstration. This places faith over against demonstration, but not over against knowing.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.