Quotes About Faith

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it's simply called Job.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

Recovery is treacherous but the peace and contentment that awaits us is beyond description. Trust your gut. Stay the course."2

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.

This [the Lord's Supper] is a strange meal indeed, in which Jesus is the host and also the guest and also the food.

Every Christian in every age has been tempted to paper over scripture's cracks, explain away its oddities, show it's no different or more demanding than what we hearers already think we know about God and the world. This is a mistake. Scripture is spectacularly odd.

Modern, technique-based ways of reading have their place, but reading scripture is not complete until the church loves God and neighbor more.

God does not demand anything of us that God has not already done. In fact, God does not just ask us to do what God has done; God enables us to take that step.

The point of the Bible isn't to learn what it says. The point of going to church isn't to be more religious. The point of both is to be made into nothing but love of God and neighbor.

But Jesus is stubbornly, ferociously committed to his church. ... he'll be there. That's the batch of people through whom he is redeeming the world, impossible as that seems.

St. Augustine imagines standing on tiptoes, trying to catch a glimpse of a God who is unbound by time and space, who knows all, is all-powerful, and is entirely unbearably good. We can't imagine such a God. All our thoughts are bounded by time, space, weakness, our own sinfulness. But we can just brush up against the underside of such thoughts as we reach reach reach . . . and then we trip over the crucified slave who is washing our feet.

Reading the Bible, for Christians, is a matter of expecting to be surprised by Jesus again.

My heart is full and my weapon is clean.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

Dios, ¿no tengo necesidades y derechos?». Dios le habló a su corazón diciéndole: «Sí, tienes derechos. Tienes derecho a que todo se trate de ti. Tienes derecho a satisfacer tus necesidades. Tienes derecho a no ser heroico. Tienes todo el derecho de no convertirte en un santo».

Purity also offers you a new lens through which you view life. Not only are you more able to see God with the eyes of faith, you're also more able to see Him in others....Wouldn't it be nice not only to see God in a boyfriend, but know that your boyfriend sees God in you?

If your relationship with God is secondary to your relationship with a man, the human relationship can grow into an idol. It will reign over your heart and dictate your level of happiness. Not only is this unfair to the man, it will ultimately end in disappointment. For things to run more smoothly, put God first and let Him worry about the rest.

You could see that he physically was there, but one could sense that he was immersed in the love of the Lord. They were united in talking to each other.

For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness. Therefore, whoever disregards this, disregards not a human being, but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 1 Thess. 4:7–8

A course on philosophy introduced her to a new hero, the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas." Elizebeth, a smart person from a working-class family, found this concept liberating: the measure of a person was her ideas, not her wealth or her command of religious texts.

the Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who "believed in one aristocracy—the aristocracy of intellect," she wrote in a paper. "He had one faith—faith in the power of thought, in the supremacy of ideas.