Quotes about Belief

Most people believe if God performed a miracle—just one miracle—for them, they would surely and permanently believe in God. But, as explained in the commentary to Exodus 16:2, human nature doesn't work that way. The power of witnessing a miracle wears off quickly, and most individuals soon need (or merely want) another miracle. Over time, most people's attitude toward those who have done something good for them is: "What have you done for me lately?

The Torah and Judaism are behaviorist in their approach to life. How we behave is ultimately more important than how we think or feel. This is one of the greatest differences between the Torah and the contemporary mind, which attaches far more importance to how people feel.

The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.

Judaism has consisted of four components: God,Torah, Israel, and Chosenness; that is, the God introduced by the Jews, Jewish laws, Jewish peoplehood, and the belief that the Jews are God's chosen people. Jews' allegiance to any of these components has been a major source of antisemitism because it not only rendered the Jew an outsider, but more important, it has often been regarded by non-Jews as challenging

A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be … that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love… the faith that you have — that's what's going to define your life.

Every word is true. It is filled with God's own power and authority.

One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.

In Psalm 37:5, David said, "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it." More literally, the verse says, "And He is doing it." Two things are here required of us. The first is an act: "commit." The second is an attitude: "trust." The act of commitment leads to the attitude of trust. David assured us that, as long as we continue in this attitude of trust, God "is doing it.

In other words, God is working out what we have committed to Him. It is the continuing attitude of trust on our part that keeps the channel open through which God is able to intervene in our lives and work out what needs to be done. But if we abandon our trust, we close off the channel and hinder the completion of what God has begun to do for us.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".