Quotes About Faith

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.

Confession also means confessing to an assignment. "Who are you?" The austere figure of John the Baptist stands there and says: "I am the one crying in the wilderness." Confession means proclaiming, praising and really spreading the word.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us." Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. 5

God lets you hang out on a limb till the very last second and then rescues you. It builds your trust. If He made it easy all the time, you would never trust Him when you really need to.

The path to God's favor always requires self-examination and a right heart before God.

can do all things through him who strengthens me. Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble" (Phil. 4:13–14 ESV).

Before God promotes us, he takes us through pain to purify our hearts, deepen our dependence on him, and impart spiritual wisdom.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9 ESV).

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

God has our best interests at heart and wants to work on us in order to work through us.

Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Philippians 3:12 ESV

You can more easily partner with God instead of making the situation worse by reacting emotionally.

Getting better requires humbling ourselves before the Lord.

A leader should always approach a crisis from the perspective that God has something to teach him or her. Adversity is a pathway to refinement.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.