Quotes About Faith

In the end, would he be able to say with Paul, I have fought a good fight! I have finished the course! I have kept the faith! Time, which tells everything, would tell that, also.

If you yield it up, God will make it enough

Charles Spurgeon had said, "Christianity rests upon the fact that Christ is risen from the dead, His sovereignty depends upon His resurrection.

What is your hope,' said Paul, 'for any ministry you may undertake?' 'To help people love God so they can learn to love themselves and each other.

thus far, and grace will lead me home . . . .

For all things work together for good . . ." he murmured, quoting from the book of Romans. "Use this for good," he prayed.

He believed in Father Brad, who conceded with Goethe that 'correction is good, but encouragement is better.

There's no other way I can think of to put it—but when you let him move into your life, the garbage moves out. The anger starts to go, and the resentment, and the fear.

If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.

Let us bathe ourselves, our family, and friends in prayer. Let us bathe our work and our enemies in prayer. And let us always come boldly to the throne of grace . . . that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

All that I have seen," Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, "teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.

Some have been in church all their lives and have never known this mighty, marvelous, and yet simple personal relationship. Others believe that while such a relationship may be possible, it's not for them—why would God want to bother with them, except from a very great distance? In reality, it is no bother to God at all. He wants this relationship far, far more than you and I want it, and I pray that you will ponder that marvelous truth.

Don't worry about anything . . ." he said aloud, quoting his all-time standby verse in the fourth chapter of Philippians, "but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make your requests known unto God, and the peace that passes all understanding will fill your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person," Pascal wrote. "And it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God, made known through Jesus Christ.

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Niebuhr spoke to that," said Father Tim. "Indeed. He said, 'Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?

When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places." "Perhaps somewhere I have the smallest bit of faith," she said, "something left over from my childhood. But it's almost nothing, not enough..." "If you yield it up, God will make it enough.

Though we don't do it often enough, it's easy to have a grateful heart for food and shelter, love and hope, health and peace. But what about the hard stuff, the stuff that darkens your world and wounds you to the quick? Just what is this everything business? "It's the hook. It's the key. Everything is the word on which this whole powerful command stands and has its being.

Thank you, God, for second chances

I believe if I were charged with having a goal, it would be to live without fretting—to live more fully in the moment not always huffing about as I've done in recent years . . . to live humbly—and appreciatively—with whatever God furnishes.

I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.' He took a deep breath. 'Go without looking back.

A small parish is a fragile ecology.