Impact of Beliefs Quotes

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.