Quotes about Belief

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel.

My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I'm a believer in karma, and I'm also a believer that things happen for a reason.