Quotes About Faith

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray.

he entrusted the outcome of his circumstances, problems, and ministry to the Father. And as a result, every action Jesus took was rooted in a place of deep rest and centeredness out of his relationship with God.4

el camino a la vida es a través de la muerte y resurrección por la crucifixión.

Part of growing into an emotionally mature Christian is learning how to apply practically and effectively the truths we believe.

be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him" (Psalm 37:7).

It both sustains and kills—like a God.

Azt mondják, Isten nem csúfoltatik meg. Én meg azt mondom, ne csúfoltassék meg az ember!

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

Está enojado por la noticia de que el ejército israelita solo mató a todos los hombres, tomando prisioneros a las mujeres y los niños. En su celo, alimentado por la conciencia del pacto, Moisés insiste en matar a todos los niños y a las mujeres adultas, perdonando solo a las niñas vírgenes: "Pero a todas las niñas entre las mujeres que no hayan conocido varón, las dejaréis con vida para vosotros

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.

Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads>; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

The fifth point I would like to mention is how faith in disinterested perception in the modern sciences has been shaken, particularly by the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Physics, the previously unchallenged ruling discipline of the natural sciences, lost its innocence at the latest because of

I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.

Theologians have long been troubled by Jesus' willingness to allow Judas to be there at this key event for the future life of his church. This is, after all, an apostle who he knows is about to betray him.

The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume summed up the dilemma succinctly when he wrote of God: 'Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then

And Judas Iscariot's name continues in the twenty-first century to represent a crushing rebuke, a despicable traitor, as in the controversialist Lady Gaga's 2011 single, 'Judas', about being in love with a bad 'un. 'Jesus is my virtue', she sings in a promotional video bursting with religious imagery, 'and Judas is the demon I cling to'.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.