belief quotes

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Theology is unnecessary.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Belief creates the actual fact.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.