Quotes About Faith

Jesus suffered, and Jesus was dearly loved as the only Son of the Father. When we suffer what seems like endless pain, it is hard to believe that God loves us, but Jesus' suffering proves that it can be true.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

Screwtape warns Wormwood] Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's [God's] will, looks around upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.4

Endurance in suffering doesn't grab our attention, but it is a response so important that it will have value that lasts beyond death.

God really does speak in our suffering, and we have good reason to believe that the words he says are good and powerful enough to lighten our pain.

In an African hospital, a pastor who had just witnessed another death was approached by a poor, elderly woman. "You know," she said, taking my [the pastor's] arm, "through many losses of family and friends and through much sorrow, the Lord has taught me one thing. Jesus Christ did not come to take away our pain and suffering, but to share in it."2

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

Worry's magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.

They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance. How

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?

Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn't our kingdom, it's God's. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control.

If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away?

Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us" (Danticat 19).

Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other -Giselle

Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is. Even if you don't feel like living for yourself, you have to start living for your child, for your children

She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.

God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

Doomsday cults flourished in the damp, inviting loam of fear, like so many black orchids. People spoke of End Times, convinced that they were living through the final days.

But people designed and built the bridge." "Under God's will. Don't you understand? It's nothing you can argue with, Tanner. Give up now.

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope