Don Miller Quotes on Belief
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I do not belive that I have a thinking problem as much as a feeling problem. What I mean is, I know the Christian answer to most quesitons but I do not always live accordingly. I am not pagan. But my 'goodness' is the product of moral upbringing, not of a coherent biblical worldview. I tend do to and thing as I feel like doing and thinking. There is rarely and exception. I am guided by Pavlovian instincts. Church culture has a vocabulary, and I have learned it well. There is a dress code too, and my clothes are well within the acceptable parameters, I wear Dockers and plaid shirts, as is silently required of twenty-something Christians. I only vote Republican, which is also silently required.
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'Don.' 'Yeah.' 'Why don't people believe?' 'Why don't they believe what?' 'In God.' 'I don't know. Not everyone has a Volkswagen.'
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The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart.
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And that's when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
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Satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons.
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But the trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsiblity, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them.
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don't even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
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What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.