Quotes about Belief

The Bible says God is good. It's His personality, His nature. It's impossible for Him to do bad; it's outside His very character. And yet when we start to think about religion, about God, we spend most of our time trying to gather up the courage to trust and believe that God is actually going to be good to us and be willing to help us.

I think trusting that God is good is one of the hardest steps there is to take. We get conditioned to expect to be let down. We get conditioned to not trust, because we trusted and we get burned. We get conditioned to be reserved and not take things at face value because we've learned nothing is ever at face value in life.

Why worry about dying, Dar? There's a verse in Romans 14 that says: 'If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.' Death is kind of like being born: it happens to everyone. God knows the right time, and He'll be there.

She needed to set aside trying to understand and instead lean against the character of the One who had made the decision. God was trustworthy.

God has made me into a tough, battle-hardened believer. I am very grateful to have those eleven years behind me. But I used them. I chose to survive with my faith intact. I chose to come out strong and together. I endured, and now I'm going to thrive. I don't expect life to be easy. I do expect God to be there with me. He was during the last eleven years.

In Jesus' name, I am healed. Get out.

One person accepts healing as a gift and goes running because they enjoy running. The person running beside them thinks that by running, they will be healthy and wonders why they never are. Two people, same action, only one is receiving health from God. The righteous shall live by faith. We are healed by a gift of grace received by faith.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind's mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .

To the wizard death is merely a belief.