Quotes about Beliefs

If you get any two evangelicals together, you will have at least three opinions! I

The issues we address do not pit the Wesleyan against the Calvinist or the evangelical against the charismatic. This is not to say that these are not important issues, because they are and will remain so until the Lord comes back. But they are not issues that we are going to allow Satan to use as a point of division.

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down. I

There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

There are far too many Christians who believe that theological conformity is a prerequisite for community.

The integrated sum of a man's basic values is his sense of life.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.