Quotes about Belief

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

unbelief turns on an act of will and a habit of mind shaped by choice.

The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.