Quotes About Faith

For most of us church folks, the norm has been defined by what we have or haven't experienced up to this point. Another way of saying this is we've allowed our experience to define normal. What we experience determines what is normal; what we consider to be normal is authoritative, and thus our experience becomes our authority. What we have or haven't experienced sets the bar for what we do and don't expect from God.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police." A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.

would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul—does

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

Personality cults are an insult to Islam.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

For me personally, joy comes from focusing on Jesus, others, and yourself.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.