Quotes about Belief
He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.
— Karl Barth
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
— JI Packer
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
— John Piper
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
— Joseph Addison
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
— Jurgen Moltmann
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
— Mark Twain
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
— Mark Twain
My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
— Napoleon Hill
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
— Norman Vincent Peale