Quotes about Belief
John teaches that the commandment is to believe in the name of Jesus Christ and to love one another. If our love of other Christians is cold, we need to examine whether or not we have savingly believed on Christ Jesus the Son of God.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
— Thomas a Kempis
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
— Thomas a Kempis
Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.
— Thomas a Kempis
We must not trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently try the matter, whether it be of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
Unhappily we are so weak that we find it easier to believe and speak evil of others, rather than good.
— Thomas a Kempis
Satan leaves unbelievers and sinners alone because he already has them in his grip; he goes after believers who are faithful and devout.
— Thomas a Kempis
If thou seekest Jesus in all things, thou shalt surely find Jesus.
— Thomas a Kempis
Whom shall I trust, O Lord, whom shall I trust but Thee? Thou art the Truth, and deceivest not, nor canst be deceived. And on the other hand, Every man is a liar,(3) weak, unstable and frail, especially in his words, so that one ought scarcely ever to believe what seemeth to sound right on the face of it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Oh, how good and peacemaking a thing it is to be silent concerning others, and not carelessly to believe all reports, nor to hand them on further; how good also to lay one's self open to few, to seek ever to have Thee as the beholder of the heart; not to be carried about with every wind of words, but to desire that all things inward and outward be done according to the good pleasure of Thy will!
— Thomas a Kempis