Quotes About Belief

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

Yet somehow Jesus' actions were not matching John's expectations. And that distance between what John thought Jesus would do and what Jesus actually did was straining John's certainty of who Jesus was.

key invitation of our spiritual journeys is to be emotionally honest about our uncertainties. Questions such as the one asked by John are signs of a living, growing, active faith, not evidence of a dying one.

the disciples' illusions of what Jesus could and should do with His power were shattered by the reality of what Jesus actually did with His power, and their personal illusions of commitment-unto-death were shattered by the reality of fear-inspired self-protection.

God keeps our hearts peaceful (sound, complete, well) when we keep our minds trust-full (steadfast upon Him).

Some things just have to be believed to be seen." —PHILIP YANCEY

life, we don't get what we ask for. We get what we believe. And

In life, we don't get what we ask for. We get what we believe. And what we believe about ourselves shows up in our energy.

Why give up before we try?

Everything's gonna be alright.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us.

and my friend Karen remembers as a little girl studying Hebrew she inquired of her refugee tutor who stroked his beard and said in Yiddish "if there is a god or if there isn't a god a Jew studies"--isn't that a good story beloved, but the woman in me says that the poet lies the poet can afford to lie

Kad su drevni narod stvarali bogove na svoju sliku, bojali su se i bili ponizni pred njima. U današnje doba, Bog se boji ljudi.

Faith without love is to be in people's bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.

Ik geloof het niet. Mamba is gewoon een oude man. Er is niets magisch aan, aan die droogte. Het weer wordt geregeerd door de lucht, door de zon en de wolken... niet door hem. - Bloem-van-de-droogte