Quotes About Belief

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

God has made the desire of our own happiness so necessary to the soul of man, that it cannot be separated from our desire to please him. Therefore, both in respect to God, and to our own happiness, "we must believe that he is the everlasting Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Thomas has privileged information about the health status of Jesus in the period after the crucifixion

According to John a man died, was in a tomb for three days, and then on the Sunday he came back to life and walked away. A god is involved. 'That figures.

As we'll see, there was an irony in this. The government's claims were propagandistic exaggerations, which came to be widely disbelieved. But actually the government resisted far more than the Communists, who resisted very little and whose losses were a small fraction of those suffered by the KMT's forces.

Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.

It is amazing to watch God do through us what we could never accomplish on our own. It is comforting to know we have a God who is, always faithful, desires more for us than we could imagine, and perfectly capable of doing the impossible.

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

Doubt and fear of the future are behind the reluctance of many to wholeheartedly accept and follow God's invitation to join Him.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

Nothing is as real as dreams.

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk-taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

estado tan peligroso que consiste en creer que uno está haciendo bien las cosas si no está peor que la competencia.

diga lo que piensa y crea en lo que dice"; de preferencia, dígalo con pocas y bien escogidas palabras.

All naturally evolved religions--cultural viruses--are bundles of memes.

the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

However, though belief on faith alone may be comforting, it is wholly arbitrary and thus does nothing to ensure that you are more correct than anyone else. So it cannot properly be described as knowledge, but rather as a mere wish, a desire that something be true or false, or else it is a naive trust in guesswork or hearsay.