Top 100 Quotes About Believing In God
#1. I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.
Jim Jefferies
#2. I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.
Stanley Hauerwas
#3. In reality, the only necessary argument against believing in God is simply that there is no evidence that any gods exist. An
Armin Navabi
#4. But believing in God and having a relationship with Him were two different things.
Karen Kingsbury
#5. At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
R.C. Sproul
#6. Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
C.S. Lewis
#7. The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. Chesterton is quoted as saying, When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
Mark Driscoll
#9. Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
Donald Miller
#10. There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.
Albert Camus
#12. For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
Thomas Aquinas
#13. Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.
Clifford Williams
#14. Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence
#15. I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.
Richard Dawkins
#16. It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#17. If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty.
Tade Thompson
#19. I'd rather live my life believing in God to die and see there is one. Because if there isn't one, it means there's no eternal life, therefore I will never know.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#20. When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.
Donald Miller
#21. I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
Ofra Haza
#22. Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
Daniel Dennett
#23. You're the only person I know who can take communion despite not believing in God and not commit blasphemy. The only person I know.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#24. I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
Bill Cosby
#25. You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!
Daniel Dennett
#26. God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.
Brad Stine
#27. I've stopped dreaming to believing in God.
Evans Biya
#28. Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it.
Kristin Hannah
#29. I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.
George Coyne
#30. A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God
Huston Smith
#32. In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God.
Carrie Ryan
#33. Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he would take compassion and give me answer.
Lew Wallace
#34. Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.
Emily Watson
#35. People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently - and generally better - than people who serve other masters." "So it is like believing in God." "Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.
Neal Stephenson
#36. That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.
Neal Stephenson
#37. Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.
Tony Evans
#38. And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.
Cassandra Clare
#39. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
Michael Newdow
#40. When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco
#41. My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to college, even though I'd long stopped believing in God.
Simon Schama
#42. I believe we will start believing in God as we get closer to death.
Howard Stern
#43. In my twenties in San Francisco I became a sophisticate and an acting agnostic. It wasn't that I had stopped believing in God; it's just that God didn't seem to be around the neighborhoods I frequented.
Maya Angelou
#44. Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.
Tami Hoag
#46. [When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not ... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
James D. Watson
#47. I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection including eternal joy; and does not require the solar system to entertain Him like a circus.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.
Orhan Pamuk
#49. I think everybody should believe in himself. I suppose, in a way, that's also believing in God. If there is a God and He made you, then believing in yourself is also believing in Him. Once you carry God inside yourself, then you're part of Him.
Jimi Hendrix
#50. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#51. Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.
Anne Lamott
#52. There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
Andy Stanley
#54. In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).
Peter Rollins
#55. Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Scott Dikkers
#57. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
T.H. White
#58. Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#59. If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Blaise Pascal
#60. Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.
Rick Warren
#61. Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
Ellen G. White
#62. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
Francine Rivers
#63. Want something true?
- I killed god...
...
Hahaha, look your face... you started believing me... whaterver to be honest god is the world best Illusion in this world "Matrix".
Deyth Banger
#65. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
Criss Jami
#66. The Holy One. I have never stopped believing in him. I don't understand the idea that God wants to be worshipped one way alone, and when I feel overwhelmed by the immensity and beauty of his creation, I am glad my mother taught me to bless and praise him everywhere. My
Laurel Corona
#67. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#68. Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.
John Bunyan
#69. There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.
Lettie Cowman
#70. Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
Luis Palau
#71. 13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Anonymous
#72. But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.
Graham Greene
#73. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But
R.A. Salvatore
#74. Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.
Mother Angelica
#75. What is gayer than believing in a household god?
Franz Kafka
#76. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
Andy Rooney
#77. If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.
Os Guinness
#78. The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
Northrop Frye
#79. Is refusing to give up, believing in dreams not yet seen, and knowing God gives us both. Hope
Lorilyn Roberts
#80. Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.
Terry Pratchett
#81. A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.
Doug Ferguson
#82. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.
J. Budziszewski
#83. If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.
Michael Jackson
#84. If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.
Greta Christina
#85. The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing
God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.
John Piper
#86. One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.
Robert M. Price
#87. Eugene Peterson once wrote that before we can love our enemies, we have to pray our hatred. In these psalms - which are more frequent than the psalms of orientation - Israel vented and boiled over at God, apparently believing he was secure enough to be able to take it.
John Ortberg
#88. Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#89. I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.
Ricky Gervais
#90. What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.
Gene Robinson
#91. Faith will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice?
Phil Mitchell
#92. Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
Watchman Nee
#93. The only way to love a person is ... by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.
Brenda Ueland
#94. Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
Stephen Hawking
#95. I don't believe in God. I know God! Once you know someone, believing is no longer a concern.
Wm. Paul Young
#96. What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose
a god who simply is.
Stanislaw Lem
#97. Fear is actually faith in the wrong god. Fear is the manifestation of believing that something is about to go wrong. And yet, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18).
Kris Vallotton
#98. The fact that it is sometimes difficult for me to believe in God doesn't mean that I deny his existence. If I stopped believing in him, I wouldn't be able to continue living.
Rafael Abalos
#99. If you believe [in God], your belief will kill your sinning, or else your sinning will kill your believing!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#100. Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!
Billy Graham
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