Quotes About Faith

Never can we truly recover our courage, till we recover our holiness—'If

There is no more difference betwixt a hypocrite and an apostate, than betwixt a green apple and a ripe one; come a while hence, and you will see him fall rottenripe from his profession.

Fides pinguescit operibus—'faith fattens or becomes strong on works,' Luther.

That he who means to be a Christian indeed, must endeavour to maintain the power of holiness and righteousness in his life and conversation.

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.

Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman.

Why have You made us the saddest animal? (...) He cannot do it, Henry, that is why. He can't continue us. All He can do is try to make us happy that we die. Really, He's a pretty good fellow.

I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.

Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.

The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt chuckled—it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

God works in history, therefore a contemplative who has no sense of history, no sense of historical responsibility, is not fully a Christian contemplative.

Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.

A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see immediate, specific, concrete results of their efforts. If they have any effect upon their students, it will show up later in life, long after their students have left them." The same can be said of the pastoral ministry.

To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called "gospel." You are properly called a "Christian" when it's obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world tries to impose on you, and that the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you.

No man can follow Christ and go astray.

I trust the people.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.