Quotes About Faith

If there was something about Jones's demands on his followers that they didn't understand, it shouldn't be questioned—God didn't want them doing that, either. To challenge Jim Jones was to challenge the Lord, and God would respond accordingly.

When she learned of the verdicts, Nancy Maddox pulled her granddaughter, Jo Ann, aside and whispered, "Life is like always living under a big rock. Always look at it and pray that it won't fall on you." Nancy felt as though she had been buried under an avalanche.

For the first time, though only in private, he began incrementally revealing the considerable divide between the Bible-based religion he still preached and his true beliefs. Jones talked about reincarnation—not only his faith in it, but his conviction that "Jim Jones" was simply the latest physical manifestation of a spirit previously occupying the earthly bodies of other great men, all of them dedicated to equality and justice.

A big surprise for W.D. was discovering that Clyde and Bonnie both prayed frequently. The religious faith ingrained in them by their mothers hadn't been entirely abandoned.

Thank goodness these people have been converted," Felix said with relief after the Saxons let us go. "They're devout enough to send missionaries safely on their way." "It's too bad they're not devout enough to remember the phrase 'Thou shalt not kill,' " I said sadly. "Yes, they let us live, but how many innocent people will die at their hands tomorrow?

Jones generally forbade drinking alcohol, but on this night at the Geary Boulevard temple he told the P.C. members that it was all right for once. Each of them drank some, and after their cups were emptied Jones informed them that their wine had been laced with poison—all of them would die within forty-five minutes to an hour. There was no antidote. They were doomed.

of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world." What the world has to offer will only fulfill the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. But God will generously provide all that we need.

to live an abundant life meant to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.

someone who reads their horoscope in the daily newspaper is considered a practicing occultist, because he is looking to astrology for answers and direction instead of to God.

The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can as easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones. Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy.

Nothing will cost you more in life than a predetermined belief that things aren't going to work out.

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

When you believe you can do something, you have the courage to move forward despite being afraid.

There is nothing on earth you cannot have—once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us. — Orison Swett Marden

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them come true. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

God is not an object to be viewed but a Person to be experienced.

Ever wonder why Christians are often lethargic in worship? Why our allegiance is weak and our obedience sporadic? It's because we know little of God's power working through the church. Imagine how our faith and worship would explode if we witnessed more of God's life-changing work in the lives of His people. Again, the spiritual principle here is "the greater the awe, the greater the worship.

This tells us our redemption is older than creation itself, and that God's loving heart and will to save us traces to eternity past.54 That's how long God has loved you.

worship. The same is true for believers. Ever

I started worrying that maybe you only get a certain number of prayers answered in you lifetime and I'm burning through mine too fast. I'd hate to find out later on that I used up all my chits, because I've been acting like I've got an unlimited supply.

Manny has it made in church

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.