Quotes About Faith

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.

God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God.

The body of Christ has no arms and feet, but ours. In other words, God needs us as much as we need God.

I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.

Theology at its best doesn't seek to solve, but to behold.

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being.

As Bill Coffin put it, "We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

I had forgotten that things might change in future and that promise was a debt.

She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.

she didn't understand a thing about Catholics. It's all praise Mary, she said, women doing all the hard work and letting men run the church and calling the shots for everyone.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see...

He know where He wants to take me, and He'll get me there, in spite of myself.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.