Quotes about Belief

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

I've had signs I can play at the highest level.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.

You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.   I understood. The eagle was telling me that dreams, visions, meditations such as this very one—things that I had till now disdained as fantasy and illusion—were as real and as solid as anything in my waking life.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

The power to take charge was in my hands; all I had to do was believe it.

Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

You become an artist once you start saying that you are an artist.