Quotes About Faith

I look back over the events of my life and see the hands that carried Moses to his grave lifting me out of mine. In remembering I go back to these places where God met me and I meet him again and I lay my head on his breast, and he shows me the land beyond the Jordan and I suck into my lungs the fragrance of his breath, the power of his presence.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

We walk by faith and not by sight – not because we are blind, but because faith gives us the courage to face or fears and puts those fears in a context that makes them less frightful. We walk by faith and not by sight because there are places to go that cannot be seen and the scope of our vision is too small for our strides. Faith is not a denial of facts – it is a broadening of focus. It does not deny the hardness of guitar strings, it plucks them into a sweetness of sound

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.

It took the hand of God almighty To part the waters and the sea But it only takes one little lie To separate you and me We are not as strong as we think we are.

And while reason may be found within His love, no reason would be able to contain his love. […] It is possible that the evidence of His divinity lies in that love – that in light of love, miracles seem sort of unremarkable. If God can love me, the rest will follow.

While we strive to be like God, we're pretty apt to fail, and we let ourselves down. I think more so than [we let God down]. God knows that we are dust, and I don't think He's too uptight about it.

Sometimes we don't know where God is going to lead us; but God already knows. It's not our job to worry about that. It's just our job to follow.

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

Forgive us our fantasies. It's all we have.

Cognsctis vrittem et vrits lberbit vs. (John 8.32:

Quid est enim fids nisi crdere quod nn vids? (Augustine Evang. Iohan.

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

Vdcaelum novum et terram novam. (Revelations 21.1.)

Et sambulver in medi umbrae mortis, nn timb mala, quoniam t mcum es. (Psalms 22.4:

Nunc autem manet fids, sps, crits—tria haec; maior autem hs est crits. (1 Corinthians 13.13:

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

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To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.