Quotes About Belief

We take it for granted that the sun rises in the east every morning and sets in the west at night. The next day, the sun does the same thing again. But what if I told you that the sun isn't moving at all? It's us who are spinning and moving around the sun! I trust you already knew that, but the takeaway from the analogy is that we tend to get mentally wedded to ideas that are no longer valid. After

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

Truthfulness is overrated. The world works the way we want it to because of a thousand little innocent lies.

Well-defined theological convictions did not admit contrary viewpoints, for even the consideration of alternate possibilities ran contrary to the notion of faith.

Too many of us unconsciously believe that a well-studied understanding of our cultural context, rather than the Bible, is the key to preaching with power.

Perhaps," she went on, "the biggest lesson of all is that people need to learn to put their faith in God and not in the men who have built institutions around faith or even in the institutions themselves.

Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and their manipulation— only to find ourselves manipulated by the symbols we take so seriously, objectified in our objectifications.

Inhofe concluded: "This is what a lot of alarmists forget. God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons.

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it's a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it's a choice some people make.

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people are not made to suffer.

Never gonna fall for Modern love walks beside me. Modern love walks on by. Modern love gets me to the church on time. Church on time terrifies me. Church on time makes me party. Church on time puts my trust in God and man. God and man no confessions. God and man no religion. God and man don't believe in modern love.

It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.

Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.

The right dose of expectations can be as powerful as one of the strongest painkillers.

One of the difficulties of stretching ourselves is that we tend to see ourselves as our limitations, not as our potential. We're lost in our own world.

G. K. Chesterton claimed that joy, "which is the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian . . . and the dominant theme of Christian faith. By its creed (i.e., what we believe) joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special (occasional) and small.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

Few people win consistently, so the tax situation shouldn't matter. But one overriding thing about gamblers is that they always think they are going to win, despite years of evidence to the contrary.

Les hommes normaux ne savent pas que tout est possible.

At it's most basic level, we believe man is essentially good. Organized religion and big government believe the opposite, that man is fundamentally evil and needs to be controlled or policed.