Quotes About Faith

More than amazing. It might actually be the skull of Moses. Wow. Just wow.

He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God's own image.

The Templars were Christians, sure, but they also venerated Mother Nature and the stars and the seasons. Whereas the Church wanted nothing to do with nature. They saw science and medicine and astronomy as challenges to their doctrines. They wanted people to have faith, not knowledge.

there are no atheists in a fox hole. Your

She closed her eyes and lifter her face to the

The rocks don't lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.

Since the time of Justin, the dialogue between faith and reason, between faith and culture, has reflected two essential characteristics of the Christian intellectual heritage: (1) faith seeks understanding; and (2) intellectual inquiry invites a response of faith.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.

Remember here that Islam does not, as Christianity does, separate the religious from the secular. The two constitute an integrated whole. The ideal state would be a theocracy; and in the absence of such fulfillment, a good ruler leaves matters of the spirit and mind (in the widest sense) to the doctors of the faith. This can be hard on scientists

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Lincoln managed to both respect religion and parody it

The old Pilgrim barks, borne as by a miracle over the angry ocean

As he himself expressed it, his was the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths—the greatest in his belief in God and everyday miracles, the least in his acceptance of any church's creeds.

In one of the rare moments that he discussed his private beliefs, Lincoln declared he would join a church if he found one whose only requirement was to follow the Golden Rule.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Waiting for an angel. Someone to ameliorate. Lift me over difficulties. I stop looking. My angel is me.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

The miracles do not cancel out evil, but I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

You've got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen," Anne Lamott wrote. "They don't even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.

I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

Thomas Lynch showed me that it is possible to love a child who is lost, possibly forever.