Quotes about Belief

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.