Quotes about Belief

Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

Everyone who must contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices for the devil to have lost his game.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

The greatest hindrance to faith is again and again just the pride and anxiety of our human hearts.

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.