Quotes about Belief
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
— Ted Dekker
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
— Billy Graham
To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
— James Faust
All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.
— Lee Strobel
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
— Lucille Ball
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
— John Calvin
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
— Ravi Zacharias
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
— Charles Spurgeon