Quotes about Belief

Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.

For every American who believes he's going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.

If your faith is based on lack of affliction, it's on the brink of extinction and is only a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call away from collapse. Token faith will not survive suffering. Nor should it.

If you are looking for a religion centered around yourself, Ben, I must agree that Christianity is a poor choice.

And do you think your refusal to believe will convince God to change his nature? He is who he is no matter what you think of him. Despite what Americans believe, the universe is not a democracy. Truth is not determined by the majority. As for hell, if you were as just and holy as God is, you would understand that all men deserve hell. It is no puzzle that men should go to hell. What is a puzzle is that men should go to heaven.

When hard times come, people should lose their faith in false doctrine, not in God.

The only proper foundation for optimism is the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Any other foundation is sand, not rock. It will not bear the weight of our eternity.

We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." —Burk Parsons

We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." —Burk Parsons "The

A Barna poll shows that for every American who believes he or she is going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.[4] Yet Christ said otherwise: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." —David Brainerd