Quotes About Faith

If you think you'll get tired, then you will get tired. If you think you'll lose, you will lose.

Everywhere, men and women changed their names and embraced strange gods in order to live.

Quakers quaking. Congregationalists congregating, Baptists baptizing, Dutch Reformers reforming; Episcopalians pissing on the lot. All asked for money to support the war against evil.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

Do they really think that attending mass will make them better, or happier, or save them from an eternity of hellfire? Maybe they do. But there are something like ten thousand religions in the world. What makes them think that they happen to have been born into the right one? I have asked this question several times. So far, I haven't heard a good answer. Better to start your own religion, I think. That way you get to be your own pope.

Now I know how those Christians felt when they were told they had a booking with a hungry lion in an hour.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

When we reclaim our enthusiasm for life, we are drawing closer to God, becoming more spiritual.

who have been traumatized, this can be a monumental leap of faith, but we can recover from trauma; indeed, my experience assisting others to heal from trauma has shown me this recovery is innate.

The inescapable conclusion is that Washington was a Christian.

George Washington is known by Americans as the founding father of our nation. However, there has been great confusion and debate about his faith. The historic view was that he was a Christian. The consensus of scholars that has developed since the bicentennial of Washington's birth in 1932 is that he was a Deist, that is, one who believes in a very remote and impersonal God.

Our purpose is to address the question of Washington's religion and to answer it in a definitive way, using Washington's own words. Was he a Christian or a Deist? 12 We believe that when all the evidence is considered, it is clear that George Washington was a Christian and not a Deist, as most scholars since the latter half of the twentieth century have claimed.

We believe the truth, however, is that he was an 18th century Anglican. He was an orthodox, Trinity-affirming believer in Jesus Christ, who also affirmed the historic Christian Gospel of a Savior who died for sinners and was raised to life. But then again, we also believe it would not be accurate to call him an "evangelical" (by modern standards of the word).

The idea of morning and evening prayer led by a military officer was part of the Virginia in which Washington was raised.40

Likewise, consider the statement of Benjamin Franklin delivered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man.

Washington could not have called on his men to be such authentic Christians, if he was not trying to be such a Christian as well.

In this present book, we are taking what Christian philosopher Gary Habermas, in another context, calls "the minimalist facts approach." We are only going to say what can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. We are not going to present a hagiography of George Washington, i.e., we will not make him into an ecclesiastical saint. But we do believe that his own words and actions show that he was a Christian and not an unbelieving Deist.

No one can blame his defeat in a holy war on another person, priest, group or religion. Each man's holy war is his own.

Deep, short and sincere holy life is by far better than a supposedly long holy life punctuated by capitulations to temptations and distractions.

2 Timothy 47.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

At this point, if someone came in here and said he was Superman and he could piss that shark away from here, I'd say fine and dandy. I'd even hold his dick for him.

there is always hope; some people always do better than the numbers.