Quotes About Faith

I believe God loves everyone.

A New World. A world where God has set up housekeeping, where God will live right with us, and we with Him. He'll wipe the tears from our eyes, and death will die. No more crying, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more.

We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.

People did not come to God through Jesus as much as they saw the priorities of God in Jesus.

For a minister, that was pretty inconsiderate of him to go and get killed during Lent," she said.

There'll be times," Pastor Taylor had told Sam in a quiet, hesitant voice, "when your flock will minister to you. Dark nights of the soul when it feels you've lost your way. And you have to let them. Sam, you have to let them help you.

The testimony of the Bible is clear. The God of Jesus, of Peter and of Paul, and of Abraham and Jacob is a living God. He calls himself "I AM," not "I WAS." Scripture isn't a brittle and crumbling letter from a God long silent. The Bible proclaims a God of visions, fresh words, and new revelations. To believe the Bible is to believe in such a God.

The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.

One thing my experience has showed me is that spiritually alive people tend to be insatiably curious about the Divine Presence, refuse to settle for cliché-heavy religion, and feel little obligation to believe something because they are told they must.

Avoid those persons who claim always to have believed the same thing and demand you do the same. What they are really saying is that they have refused to permit their encounters with God to reshape their lives.

I believe there is no One True Church, no One True Faith, no single path to God. There are only compassion and grace, and where they are found, God is present, yearning to know and be known.

That was the problem with religion. You no sooner made up your mind about something than you had to change it.

I believe God will save every person.

God is love. When people claim to speak for God, there should be love in their words.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

But though the mass Be holy, yet the first-fruits God most loves.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

Purgatory is hell with hope.

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.