belief quotes

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

I have always believed in God.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

My message is that God is a good God.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

They say miracles are past.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.