Quotes about Belief

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.

When you can't trust others, and you can't trust yourself, you can always trust God. He'll carry you through whatever comes your way.

Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don't.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

There is little question Islamist terrorists and molesting clergy have both played a role in the rise of atheism in our time. No atheist activist is nearly as effective in alienating people from God and religion as are evil 'religious' people.

A rabbi challenged his followers one day: "Where does God exist?" Puzzled by what almost seemed to be a heretical question, they answered: "God exists everywhere." "No," the rabbi responded: "God exists wherever man lets Him in.

We humans are the culmination of God's efforts. The Torah is man centered under God centered. It's like TWIN pillars, TWIN centers. It's NOT JUST God centered.

If there is no God, we know there is no ultimate meaning or purpose to life: that all existence—including, of course, our own—is the result of random chance.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

Belief in God means more than believing God exists; it also means believing God cares about us. After all, if God exists but doesn't care about us, what difference does it make to us whether God exists? For all intents and purposes, there is no difference between atheism and the existence of a God who doesn't care about us.