Quotes About Faith

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy - I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the love of God.

For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us.

Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.

Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.

Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.

Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but God, and who hate nothing but sin, and who know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified, and I will shake the world.

The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.

Persecution produced its ordinary effect. The people courted martyrdom. They came from all parts to deride Zouloulou, whom nothing disconcerted - and to get their heads cut off. ("The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

Walking was her only hope. A slender hope, but all she had. So she put one foot in front of the other. And walked.

Some questions simply have no answers. It was meant to be that way. If we could prove empirically that God exists - what would be the point? That wouldn't be faith. That would be science class. True religion requires an act of faith - that's what defines it.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone.

Man must & will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan & will erect the synagogue of Satan.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

I am sure this Jesus will not doEither for Englishman or Jew.

If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out.