4,325 Quotes About Belief

The things I’m burning daylight to figure out in my head are things God has already figured out in His. Faith then is resting in that fact, and in doing so suddenly finding out that among other things, I’m saving a whole bunch of daylight.

My faith is not some pathetic emotional escape from a reality that I am unable to cope with. Rather, my faith is the power to change that reality by changing me so that I can change it. And from that, I don’t need any escape nor do I want one.

I've simply always lacked even the slightest religious impulse- when people talk about their faith, I can't connect with what they're talking about. This isn't a decision I came to, or a deep belief or principle; I'm just religion-deaf, the way tone-deaf people hear sounds and not music. I suppose my religion is reading.

We have the right to our own beliefs but not our own facts’ is a common refrain the potency of which is rendered moot by the fact that inconvenient truths are dexterously circumnavigated by the spirited belief that knowing the truth is less valuable than the prize of a shared fiction.

At the end of the day, what all people outright want from their life? To make their dreams come true, so as to escape from the mundane world. However, reality often prevents them from that. Others accept that fate, lacking the courage to follow their dreams or the belief that they will make it. They don't want to risk what they have built to walk on an undiscovered path that is uncertain where will lead. So, they stay in safe grounds.

We have the right to our own beliefs but not our own facts" is a common refrain the potency of which is rendered moot by the fact that inconvenient truths are dexterously circumnavigated by the spirited belief that knowing the truth is less valuable than the prize of a shared fiction.

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

One thing is needful; to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Some of our beliefs will seem ridiculous in a hundred years’ time. Some already seemed so a thousand years ago.