Quotes about Belief

The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.

Second, we chose to believe Christ is already within us, and we remind ourselves of this marvel. The springs of life well up from within.

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life.

You really won't understand your life as a woman until you understand this: You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are passionately hated by his Enemy.

You are the son of a kind, strong, and engaged Father, a Father wise enough to guide you in the Way, generous enough to provide for your journey, offering to walk with you every step. This is perhaps the hardest thing for us to believe—really believe, down deep in our hearts, so that it changes us forever, changes the way we approach each day.

First off, we must be confident that God wants to give us more of himself.

Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

Finally, we choose to believe it's happening.

That's exactly what we do to find more of God—we practice belief. We exercise it.

Now, if you believed both assumptions, if they were woven into your deepest convictions about the world, you would want to learn to pray like a soldier wants to learn to use his weapon, like a smoke jumper wants to learn survival skills. We really have no idea what sort of breakthrough is actually possible until we learn to pray. Perhaps we, too, will be ending droughts and stopping wildfires.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.