Quotes about Belief
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
— Walt Disney
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
— Walt Disney
The world does not need the church to talk about what is already possible. The work of the church is to battle the world's definition of what is believable and unbelievable.
— Walter Brueggemann
The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation. This is not a cry for traditionalism but rather a judgment that the church has no business more pressing than the reappropriation of its memory in its full power and authenticity.
— Walter Brueggemann
But this is real prayer, down and dirty. It is not nice church prayer that refuses to ask anything because we mostly do not believe that prayers are heard or answered.
— Walter Brueggemann
The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation.
— Walter Brueggemann
every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry
— Walter Brueggemann
It is most unfortunate that, in the long history of the church, "faith" has been almost everywhere transubstantiated into "belief," which transposes the concrete practicality of trust into a cognitive enterprise. How ludicrous that in the long, oppressive history of orthodoxy—which guards cognitive formulations—that those who enforce right belief seem most often to be themselves unable or unwilling to engage in deep trust.
— Walter Brueggemann
Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?
— Walter Brueggemann
As every vibrant subcommunity knows, the defining prerequisite for such a subcommunity is a conviction that it can and will be different because of the purposes of God that will not relent.
— Walter Brueggemann
we have believed that faith does not mean to acknowledge and embrace negativity.
— Walter Brueggemann
Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.
— Walter Brueggemann