Quotes About Faith

I don't have a casual life, but exist to be possessed by misery, grace, or laughter.

little whispering fidgeting of a shut-away congregation wondering who to pray to

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.

This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

I don't understand it," I continued. "These things, they just keep happening, and I know it has to mean something. It has to. I want my suffering to mean something. I want this pain to matter.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3

Jesus' true strength was not revealed in his ability to teach and lead the multitudes. It was manifested in his willingness to make himself nothing, to suffer, and to die. I had enough strength to exhaust myself studying, mentoring, and teaching, but I did not possess sufficient strength to be nothing.

Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit,

But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

On the cross, leadership dies. On the cross, success dies. On the cross, skills die, and excellence dies. All of my strengths—nailed to the cross. All of my weaknesses—nailed to the cross. All of my yearnings for bigger and better, for anything other than Christ himself—nailed to that same cross.

Yet somehow Jesus' actions were not matching John's expectations. And that distance between what John thought Jesus would do and what Jesus actually did was straining John's certainty of who Jesus was.