Quotes About Faith

How," the moon whispered, "can you be sure it is lost? Until you try to find it?

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was Jon's momma used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury every time Jon's daddy would come home boozed. Jon never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing, same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry, booze come to be something holy to him and with faith like that Jon grew up religious as a deacon.

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.

The prayer for our bread includes the neighbors. It is our Father and our bread.

Christian faith is fact, but not bare fact; it is poetry, but not imagination. Like the arch which grows stronger precisely by dint of the weight you place upon it, so the story of the Gospels bears, with reassuring strength, the devotion of the centuries to Jesus as the Christ. What is music, asked Walt Whitman, but what awakens within you when you listen to the instrument? And Jesus is the music of the reality of God, and faith is what awakens when we hearken.ls

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

The ultimate act of power is surrender.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand.

Doesn't the God who created the universe out of nothing and put all the stars in place, have the power to take care of your situation?

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.

God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.