Quotes About Faith

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.

Sometimes life is just the WORS, y'know? Sometimes it can be hard as hell. All you can do is ride it out, and maybe. . . focus on the things you love? The people you love? And just kind of. . . hang on. With both hands.

Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.

I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.

Brother Jim loved to talk about how Jesus wasn't a pussy.

But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles—it was like being a glam-rock roadie for God.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that in the Hebrew language the word for "service" is the same word used for "worship.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

God schedules a birthday, not man.