Quotes About Faith

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus)

It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.

Augustine, the most famous convert of antiquity, was puzzled that he could have held so firmly to so many different falsehoods; he was not astounded that there are so many different truths. His conversion was not from explanation to narrative, but from one explanation to another. When he crossed the line from paganism to Christianity, he arrived in the territory of a truth beyond further challenge.

So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

Their message wasn't, 'One day you will go up to join Jesus in heaven,' but, 'One day Jesus will come back to earth.' Their message wasn't about humanity escaping to be with Jesus, but about Jesus coming back to earth to be with humanity.

In the Christian world view, having bodies is not a barrier to spirituality but how we live out our spirituality in a physical world.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either." "I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.

To Jesus it is inconceivable that someone would dare ask God for full and free forgiveness while remaining as an unforgiving person towards others. The forgiven forgive and the forgivers are forgiven.

If prayer flew as quickly as gossip, all the saints in heaven could not keep up with it.

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

Suffering perfects the soul.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.