Quotes about Belief

You have the same power, faith, and courage available to you through Christ. Don't forget, just like David, you are a giant-slayer.

That is who you are. God said so. You may fear you have screwed everything up, but the depth of your sin is not greater than God's power to forgive.

In that moment, my heavenly Father said, "You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are. And I say you are called to ministry.

Fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is

He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel "spiritual.

If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia, they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.

Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings.

Oral Roberts's informal estimate of 10 percent healed (Stewart, Only Believe, 58); in the modern faith movement, see Barron, Gospel, 125—36. Van Brenk, "Wagner," 257, cites 29 percent completely healed for Wagner (which would be quite high).

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.