Quotes about Belief

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

This is the Christian faith, which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved." The harsh and much-disputed statement begins to look like a blunt statement of fact, for how can anyone make anything of life if there is no belief in life? If we truly desire a creative life for ourselves and other people, it is our task to rebuild the world along creative lines, but we must be sure that we desire it enough.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism.

Discipleship is all about adherence to Christ.

So often the providences of God seem to run completely counter to His promises, but only that He may test our faith, only that He may ultimately accomplish His purpose for our lives in a way that He could never do if the path were always smooth.

But to doubt God and to question His motives causes our faith to shrink until literally we cease to be believers—we are believers in name, but not in practice or in action.

So often multitudes of people gather around some broken cistern of this world, trying to satisfy their thirst for they know not what. They grumble about their troubles and complain about their lot, but how few of them run to the One who said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:37—38).