Quotes About Belief

So, too, I and countless others have chosen to give God a fair hearing—if only he would speak. I would listen to him even now, at this very moment. Yet he remains silent.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

Believe you can and you're halfway there." ? Theodore Roosevelt

So saved are all those who enable themselves to believe, and therefore was the military mind called a juvenile mind. It was constant; it observed a code of honor in a world where any element of devotion to a rationale summoned scorn but the world itself knew itself was sick.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

Believing in Christ is the world's great need, and our great obligation is to tell all people that they need to do so.

We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when we have become partakers of it. The knowledge of God cannot lie buried and inactive in our hearts and not be made known to men."6 We

Only God can enlighten the mind and open the heart to His gospel. So

For one who believes in Christ, death is a gateway into a new life that will never end.

It is true that cults can help a person get off drugs, but that does not make their beliefs true. So it is with faith in Christ; its usefulness does not prove that it is true. Moreover, it is easy for people to brush testimonies aside, saying, "I'm glad it worked for him, but that has no relevance to me." Our witness must center not on our experience but on the facts of Christ's coming to this world.

If people notice that you have changed, you should praise God and tell them that it was Jesus' work, for they will gain what you have, not by admiring you, but only by believing on Jesus. In some cases, redirecting praise in this manner will result in people who previously admired you becoming hostile; the world hated Christ, and it will often hate a faithful witness to Him. But we must accept this risk so as to bear testimony not to ourselves but to Christ.

Let those who wish to witness Christ to the world therefore tend to their own faith in Jesus Christ above all else. It is often the simple exercise of faith in all of life's circumstances that bears the strongest witness.

Believing in Christ is the world's great need, and our great obligation is to tell all people that they need to do so. What

don't let what you don't know keep you from witnessing to what you do know.

Many believe that the new birth is caused by a profession of faith, but the situation is exactly reversed: A confession of faith in Christ is a result of a person being born again of the Holy Spirit. Jesus

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

God knows how to turn things around. He can turn your sorrow into joy – just let Him in.

These virtuosi maintained that whatever has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, is likely to be untrue.

Vertebrate brains and objective reality do not fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, for the simple reason that we ourselves create every idea from our own 'objective reality.' 'Real reality,' outside our perception, inevitably remains a construct, and each of us has to decide where God figures in it.

Gott als persönlicher Urheber und Lenker des Menschen war tot. Und die Naturwissenschaften feierten ihren Siegeszug mit einem neuen sehr nüchternen Bild des Menschen: Das Interesse an Affen wurde größ­er als das an Gott.

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.