Quotes About Belief

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

theologically conservative Protestant Christian)

Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.

emphasize quite strongly the responsibility of all individual Christians to think carefully about issues of faith for ourselves,

Christianity, like most religious traditions of any vintage, is inherently conservative.

but whether the Church universal will or should change its mind collectively.

But evangelicals are taught to pretend that there is no contradiction, because the Bible must not be questioned.

evangelicalism—at its core, at its immovable power center—never was more than fundamentalism with lipstick on.

Majority Christian opinion on various issues has sometimes shifted profoundly.

The Nicene Creed

In this light, I believe that one of the subtle forces producing a post-evangelicalism today is discontent with Jesus-according-to-US-white-evangelicalism.

other ways of knowing—indeed, other ways of hearing God address us. These include tradition, science, reason, experience, intuition, community, and relationships. The power of a narrow evangelical biblicism must be broken, but you can't replace something with nothing.

The Bible was treated as trustworthy in a way that other human products were not, because it was not viewed as a human product.

faith is not content with asking once or twice, but will go on asking, seeking and knocking until the prayer is answered ( Luke 11:9-13).

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.' 'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.' 'Why's that then?' he smiles. 'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.

Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.

Well, if there's a hell like this place then there has to be a heaven somewhere.

Bit lucky there" says Don. "Thought God might be smiling on you." "I don't believe in luck," you tell Don. "And I don't believe in God." "So what do you believe in then?" asks Don Revie. "Me," you tell him "Brian Howard Clough.

But one of them is that, in everything I do, I hope there will be patent common sense attached to it. Common sense and hard work. Together, hard work and common sense bring success. That is what I believe. In football and in life.

I don't believe in God. But I do believe in doubt. I do believe in fear.

Whatever people say you are, that is what you're not.