Quotes About Belief

I've yet to hear of a deathbed conversion to atheism

2 + 2 = 5: the sum of all fears

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture

When you take God out of the picture you are left without a frame

Very rarely to do you hear of death bed conversions to atheism

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.

I don't believe in Atheists but would never deny their existence

Atheists desperately try to prove the non-existence of God using minds - by their own reasoning - that have evolved from a mud that suddenly appeared from nowhere out of nothing made by nobody. And we are told to believe that a Creator hypothesis is unbelievable.

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

We are united willfully for the work of YAHWEH.

Riley had no doubt that an "immediate and merciful act of the Almighty" had saved them from the surf at Bojador. According to him, all of his men believed this too. Later, when a friend advised him to play down this conviction, because skeptics would use it to discredit the rest of his account of the voyage, Riley refused.

Massa was also where British merchant James Grey Jackson once saw a pair of colossal whale jawbones arching up from the sand. A local informed him that they had always been there and that, when the whale had beached, a man named Jonah had emerged from it's belly. Jackson laughed at the tale. His earnest informant responded only that 'nobody but a Christian would doubt the fact.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

There will be much darkness ahead—but, in the end, there will be light.

The world is worth fighting for.

Like all revolutionary new ideas, the subject has had to pass through three stages, which may be summed up by these reactions: (1) "It's crazy—don't waste my time." (2) "It's possible, but it's not worth doing." (3) "I always said it was a good idea." —Arthur C. Clarke

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.