Quotes about Belief

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

True spirituality is not trying to make ourselves spiritual through faith, but it is living out our faith in service to God and neighbor.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.