Quotes about Belief

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

children tend to hold a concept of God even if their parents are atheists.

Calvin taught that all people have an innate sense of the divine (sensus divinitatis).

Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.

The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

Remember: What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do.