Quotes About Faith

C.S. Lewis and Billy Graham once did.

certainly will be relevant to our witness to the state. But the fundamental need right now for Christians is to think seriously about whether the Church's own marginalized sexual minorities will be treated, unequivocally, as sisters and brothers in Christ.

The Bible cannot be the primary source of knowledge and criterion of truth in all areas of importance.

Keep me, O Lord, while I tarry on this earth, in a serious seeking after Thee, and in an affectionate walking with Thee, every day of my life;

most evangelicals have remained stuck there.

other ways of knowing—indeed, other ways of hearing God address us. These include tradition, science, reason, experience, intuition, community, and relationships. The power of a narrow evangelical biblicism must be broken, but you can't replace something with nothing.

The church is the community of people who stand in covenant relationship with God through Jesus Christ and seek to fulfill his kingdom mission.

The Bible was treated as trustworthy in a way that other human products were not, because it was not viewed as a human product.

My God, I pray that I may so know You and love you, that I may rejoice in You. And if I may not do so fully in this life, let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that in fullness.

The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine laws. Our

God's definition of love is a love that keeps the commandments, not that breaks them.

If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.

Here we have this extraordinary situation, not unknown today, where people talk about the next world and state their beliefs but in practice they live entirely for this one.

His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance. Yet he was far from perfect. He could tell lies to save his own skin as well as anyone. What marked him out was his faith, that trust in and obedience to God, which is counted to be the most fundamental characteristic of a good man in God's sight, the foundation of all other virtues and achievements.

faith is not content with asking once or twice, but will go on asking, seeking and knocking until the prayer is answered ( Luke 11:9-13).

As we go through the Bible, when we come across a promise of God that is a 'pearl' of his wisdom you will find at the heart of it a piece of grit, a pain, an irritation, a suffering.

Remember first that Jesus was and is a Jew. That should affect your attitude to every Jewish person you meet. Secondly, remember that Jesus inherited the promise of Abraham, and that if you want the promise of the blessing to Abraham, you must come right down the line to Jesus. When you get to know him, you will receive the blessing of Abraham.

That's the prayer God loves to answer. Have you ever prayed, "Lord, give me more money so I can give more money to someone else"? "For your work"? This is how Jesus prays: "Give this to me and then I can give more to you. Give me more time and I'll give more time to you. Give me more energy and I'll have more energy to give to you." Jesus was right to pray, "Give glory to me,

holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.

Followers of Jesus must walk in his footsteps – suffering leads to glory, the cross comes before the crown.

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.' 'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.' 'Why's that then?' he smiles. 'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that all of those things in my notebooks, on all of those tapes, in all of those envelopes and bags in my room, that none of them were true, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all of those lives could be lived anew.

I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I'd had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.