Quotes About Faith

The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

Don't be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection - as is known from the night Christ was betrayed - does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don't be afraid, you are not alone.

The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

Anxieties do not end in death. Anxieties end in God.

In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute…. And this results in a striking experience—one which I have called, borrowing military terminology, the situation of the walking wounded.

To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.

The way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.

Pharisees—men who lived in the strength of a fellowship that had behind it the greatest religious tradition in all the world, but who, because they trusted more to their tradition than to the God who inspired it, were unable to recognise the still further call of God when it came to them.

No one who is not a Christian in spirit can perform the Christian act; and the Sermon on the Mount is not a code of rules to be mechanically followed; it is the description of the life which any man will spontaneously lead when once the Spirit of Christ has taken complete possession of his heart.

Coinciden?ele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rug?m.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

I am quite sure that the Communion is just the place where we need to be divided until our unity is real.

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The

persevering intercessor is characterized by the ability to see and internalize how God desires to bless. He or she is also an advocate for the ones who stand in need of this blessing.

Corrie ten Boom stated, "The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when get busy. But he trembles when we pray especially when we pray together.