Quotes about Belief
Trust is something that's built over time, but it takes faith to make that leap. [Justin Ek)
— Richard Paul Evans
If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.
— Richard Paul Evans
We do not always believe things because they're true. More often than not, we believe things because they're expedient.
— Richard Paul Evans
I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
— Richard Paul Evans
Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
— Richard Paul Evans
Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.
— Richard Paul Evans
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
— Richard Sibbes
Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.
— Richard Sibbes
If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?
— Richard Sibbes
God is "the Truth." The Bible is the "truth about the Truth." Theology is the "truth about the truth about the Truth." Christian people live in these many truths about the Truth, and, because of them, have not "the Truth." Hungry, beaten, and drugged, we had forgotten theology and the Bible. We had forgotten the "truths about the Truth," therefore we lived in "the Truth.
— Richard Wurmbrand