Quotes about Belief

We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

At the time of the crucifixion, the disciples couldn't see how anything good could result; similarly, as we face struggles and trials and suffering, we sometimes can't imagine good emerging. But we've seen how it did in the case of Jesus, and we can trust it will in our case too. For instance, the greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God—so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.

If Jesus overcame the grave, he's still alive and available for me to personally encounter.

How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.