Quotes About Belief

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

Dios no le importa tanto que lo analicemos. Principalmente, lo que quiere es que lo amemos.

As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.

Aun cuando todo parezca fuera de control, Dios sigue dominando con toda firmeza

Confieso que, a pesar de las largas horas de estudio de los profetas, no tengo un entendimiento más claro de lo que sucederá el año próximo ni en el año 2025. Pero tengo una idea mucho más clara de lo que Dios desea lograr en mi vida ahora mismo. Y estoy ganando, gradualmente, confianza para creer en el presente lo que solo será totalmente entendible cuando se vea desde el futuro.

No society in history has attempted to live without a belief in the sacred, not until the modern West.

What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?

True hope is honest.

Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.

You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.

Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism; he pushed at its borders.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The author observes of the Inklings, they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the mere Christian, Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.