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.
...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.
You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
