Quotes about Belief

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth

All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.

Faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.

Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.

Eschatology lives in the heart of all.