Quotes about Belief

The greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God.

Do not postpone relationship with this law simply because you cannot fathom its mystery intellectually.

God alone causes faith in the believer. Faith is not the acceptance of abstract ideas. It is so often said, 'Oh, by faith you have to accept a number of dogmas.' No! Faith is participation in the life of God. In faith two persons meet. God and ourselves.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

One will never find a professor who denies freedom of the will who does not also have something in his life for which he wishes to shake off responsibility.

Only those who die with Him will live with Him.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it! - Eleanor Roosevelt Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.- -John Ruskin Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we should change God to suit our godlessness.

The modern world has rejected for the last three hundred years (after believing in it for the first sixteen hundred years), namely, the virgin birth of Jesus from His Mother, Mary, who is a virgin.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.