Quotes About Belief

L. Frank Baum

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.

Don't try, my dear

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

God's in His heaven, all's right with the world.

the surest way to lie to others is to lie to oneself first. If you can convince the single soul who knows the falsehood for what it is, then everyone else is an easy mark.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Suffering is overated.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

You deserve love and you'll get it.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.