Quotes About Faith

When man no longer regards himself as karmic he ceases to be so. That's the end of karma right there – when people stop believing in it, stop taking the idea seriously, stop treating it as real. Hinduism and Buddhism are total nonsense because they are predicated on karma, which is an illusion! They themselves say so!

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

True gratefulness is courage to give thanks for a gift before unwrapping it.

Whether anyone believed it or not, David felt he had to wait on God's word, and that Old Guy in the Sky takes his own, sweet time.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

As white Christians become closer with Christians of color, we will become better interpreters of the presence of the kingdom among us. After all, despite suffering our society's racism and white supremacist assumptions, our siblings of color can still testify to the evidence of God's kingdom. Over time, we too will develop the eyes to see with greater clarity as we invite others to join in following Jesus into the kingdom he has made available.

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis

Just to check she's not going out." "Going

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis'. Translate that from the Latin, boy!

Most people have no idea how to pray for you. If you want them to pray something more than, "Be with [fill in the blank] as she works with lost people in [fill in the blank]," then you need to teach them how to pray. Teaching them how to pray effectively is your responsibility.

Grace and mercy are God's love language to mankind.

Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith.

Learning does not require faith, just intellect. Obedience requires faith. It

Allah told me that it was what I was supposed to do. He told me to trick the white man, that getting close to him was the only way I was going to get back to Africa. And that I had to forsake all that got into my path.

You are a traitor to the entire African bloodline! You don't deserve the blood that Allah has given you! You don't deserve the air that we share. You don't deserve the color that you have on your body. You had to have stolen it! There is no way Allah would have given your

may not be perfect as a person, but God is perfect… and if I roll with Him, He will help me become more like Him until it's my time to go.

real love is possible if you have faith and believe.

Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.