Quotes about Belief
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
— Cicero
There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
— Laurence Sterne
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.
— Bo Sanchez
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
— Jurgen Moltmann
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.
— Jackie Pullinger
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.
— Rick Warren
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
— Max Lucado
He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.
— Francis de Sales
If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.
— Francis de Sales