4,325 Quotes About Belief

Religion arose as a means of explanation of natural phenomena at a time when no other explanation of the origin of natural phenomena had been ascertained. God is always what Spinoza called it, "the asylum of ignorance." When causes are unknown, God is brought forward; when causes are known, God retires into the background. In an age of ignorance, God is active; in an age of science, he is impotent.

Pretending is the outcome of desperately wanting to achieve something, but forfeiting it to the whimsy of imagination because we lack the faith to believe that we could achieve it. And if we actually started to pretend that we could achieve it, in time maybe we wouldn’t have to pretend anymore.

Disbelievers doubt rumors of miracles. They insist on seeing things with their own eyes. Believers recognize small miracles, like the everyday love that exists in families. (Who else could love these people?) Perhaps the greater miracle is that God’s work is quiet and subtle, easily overlooked; perhaps the greater miracle is that His work doesn’t conform to the expectations or demands of those who do not believe in Him.

It is clear that had primitive man known what we know today about nature, the gods would never have been born.

One of the greatest plagues that besets our humanity is our inability to believe in the totality of who we are and the utter vastness of what we can achieve. And because of this crippling disbelief, we settle for the lesser lives that we were never built for. Yet despite the enormity of our skepticism, it is well within our reach to smash such a crippling disbelief for, in fact, that is the very thing that we were built for.

I am here to tell you that the limitations that you see within yourself are a manifestation of everything except yourself.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, therem ay still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.--The death of the fundamental principle which gave life a meaning is just the beginning. People are not ready to accept nihilism and cling to old values for comfort. Thus, we as humanity still have to get over the "shadow" of the old thinking which still permeates society.

Think. Believe. Receive.

Everyone who believes in the work of Jesus has been brought into their inheritance and been given authority over the Earth through the name of Jesus.