Quotes About Belief

Coinciden?ele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rug?m.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

I am quite sure that the Communion is just the place where we need to be divided until our unity is real.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

When prayer is moved to the periphery of the church, it can only mean that God has, too.

I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life.

Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else." Trust

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

It makes no sense to take the name of Christian and not cling to Christ. Jesus is not some magic charm to wear like a piece of jewelry we think will give us good luck. He is the Lord. His name is to be written on our hearts in such a powerful way that it creates within us a profound experience of His peace and a heart that is filled with His praise.

Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

Limits exist only in the souls of those who don't dream.

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.