Quotes About Faith

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

In my heart, I know that Jesus would never condone the suffering that results when dogs and cats are allowed to breed.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

There are many similarities between Sai Baba and me. He believed there is only one God, and so do I. He loved Sufi music; so do I.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Do I believe that God is a sugar daddy? Not at all.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

If you believe in a higher power or if you believe in God, then I would suggest that you go to God and see if you can find some solutions. If you don't believe in God, then try to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can... When I've chosen the light of God or self-honesty, my own misery has brought me to a solution.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.