Quotes About Faith

The baby, the star, and the wise men: a story of gifts and radical gratitude. Joy to the world!

It is just mortifying to be a Christian, except for the Jesus part. —Anne Lamott

Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38

The Abrahamic religions refer to God as Spirit, the holy wind animating life.

hope. And the possibility of history's transformation lies through that door…. Spiritual visionaries have often been the first to walk through that door, because in order to walk through it, first you have to see it, and then you have to believe that something lies on the other side.2 A

doubting their faith, and those just hanging on is that church or Christianity has failed them, wounded them, betrayed them, or maybe just bored them—and they do not want to

When I asked about this, my mother replied that there were Jesus's rules and there were Methodist rules. The first set, apparently, were inviolate; and the second, not so much. She said that Methodist rules were "old-fashioned.

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Isn't it wonderful to serve the God of "it's never too late"?)

In the search for equality women lost their own identity and their identity in Christ. We were never meant to be equal. We were meant to be unique.

And when the darkest hour came, when all Hope seemed gone, when the hearts of many failed, when the flame was no longer visible but the right of faith, still i felt a superhuman force strengthen me as my love and my confindence could have accomplished the miracles în wich no one any longer believed.

But more importantly, they show interest in the writer—they express confidence in the writer's talents and show faith in his or her ability to succeed. They understand what the writer is attempting. They catch the vision and then do all they can.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

And if the boat sinks?" "And if the sun explodes?" Elliot countered.

Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.

I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free. His eye is on the sparrow And I know He watches me

What sells is hope.

Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.

Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?" Alec: "...God, I think...

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

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