Quotes about Belief

If there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success.

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

While individuals may look at their own lives and interactions in terms of paradigms or maps emerging out of their experience and conditioning, these maps are not the territory. They are a "subjective reality," only an attempt to describe the territory.

As we give grace to others, we receive more grace ourselves. As we affirm people and show a fundamental belief in their capacity to grow and improve, as we bless them even when they are cursing or judging us—we build primary greatness into our personality and character.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.