Quotes about Belief
When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?
— Peter Enns
Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.
— Peter Enns
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.
— Peter Kreeft
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
— Peter Kreeft
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
— Genesis 3:4
Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
— Genesis 5:24
Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
— Genesis 15:6
But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
— Genesis 15:8
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
— Genesis 18:14
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
— Genesis 18:15
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
— Genesis 19:14
And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
— Genesis 22:14