Belief Quotes

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

~ Anthony Liccione

What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred.

~ Peter Kreeft

Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband.

~ Peter Kreeft

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.

~ Sebastian Faulks

I am not moved by what I see.; I am moved by what I believe. What I do believe is greater, stronger and mightier than what I have my eyes on. Deep in my heart I do believe, I shall overcome.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

~ Marcus J. Borg

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

~ Sumner Davenport

Our conversation with God should be utterly free and familiar, because God is the only person who will never, ever misunderstand us and never, ever reject us (hate us, ignore us, or be indifferent to us). These are the tow reasons we hid from other people, even our friends, even our parents, and the tow reasons we should never hide from God.

~ Peter Kreeft

I'd rather believe in something and be wrong, than believe in nothing and be wrong.

~ Claudialyn Rodriguez Cosentino

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

~ Peter Kreeft

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not only shame or embarrassment; who accounted for each day in the office and observed public trust as if it were a word of God. But even God was nowhere. The new theology proclaimed him dead. Long live Man! Love live Me!

~ Linda Ty-Casper

What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy

~ Oshetha Shakoor

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

~ Peter Kreeft

Nothing is unbelievable, just expand your vision.

~ Saru Singhal

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

~ Damien Hirst

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.

~ Nadair Desmar

My fear is not death. I only fear GOD so as all of you should.

~ Nadair Desmar

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

~ Jessica Shirvington

Knowing isn't always believing.

~ Nora Roberts

Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.

~ Christopher Hitchens

We must only believe.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

What do you know of gods and saints?” I ask, filling my voice with scorn.His fingers drift to the silver oak leaf of Saint Camulos on his cloak. “I know that what our saints want is not always made clear to us. Sometimes, it is their wish for us to flail and struggle and come to our own choices, not accept ones that have been made for us.

~ Robin Lafevers

Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch, you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as [your] truth. And sacrifice is a required path to fulfillment.

~ T.f. Hodge

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

~ Mark Leyner

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

~ Bram Stoker

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

~ Margaret Atwood

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

~ Charles Hartshorne

It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand and always half-understanding. He learns to believe what he does not understand, and that is a step on the road to faith.

~ Jan Potocki

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

~ Paula Knoderer Hrbacek

Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.

~ Renee Swope

I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious belief hurts any individual.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange. According to Zizek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal - we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads.

~ Mark Fisher

Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God, faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

~ Tracie Miles

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

~ Peter Kreeft

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

~ Jerry Spinelli

To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of Jesus' name actually brings God closer, making him more present. He is always present in some way, since he knows and loves each one of us at every moment; but he is not present to those who do not pray as intimately as he is present to those who do. Prayers a difference; 'prayer changes things.' It may or may not change our external circumstances. (It does if God sees that that change is good for us; it does not if God sees that it is not.) but it always changes our relationship to God, which is infinitely more important than external circumstances, however pressing they may seem, because it is eternal but they are temporary, and because it is our very self but they are not.

~ Peter Kreeft

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.

~ Jenny Diski