Quotes About Faith

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.

We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.