#lie

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world. ↗

— Craig Groeschel

#christianity #faith #faith

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#existence #faith #god #faith

Yet even in such moments she didn’t doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did. ↗

— Tamera Alexander

#faith #god #trust #faith

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #faith

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#cosca #faith #faith

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change ↗

— Dave Matthews Band

#from-belief-to-action #change

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bible #christian #christianity #conversion #discipleship

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#any #believe #choose #feel #how

For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?" His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks out the and says in a voice like shattered glass, "Only in storms. ↗

— Rebecca Sparrow

#death #faith #god #grief #death

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#belief #christianity #faith #russia #faith