Quotes About Faith

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Although I cannot prove this scenario, I know it—and isn't that the ultimate definition of faith? Knowing what we can't know. Seeing what isn't there.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would

Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?' 'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?' 'An oxymormon.

Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.

Sometimes when you're driving down a back road in Utah, you think if there is a God, then he probably had something to do with all of this. It's just that fucking beautiful.

God save us from religion.

only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

I do not believe in race; I abhor any form of racialism or nationalism; and I never belonged to the Jewish faith. Thus I do not see on what grounds I could possibly consider myself as a Jew. I do sympathize with minorities; but although this has made me stress my Jewish origin, I do not consider myself a Jew.

HELL is the numbing of the soul.

I keep repeating that wherever there is life, there is hope. One day my fate will change.

Faith isn't for the faint of heart. Both Courage and naivete are required. To grasp its art, you must look the other way when all the omens seem to say you will not get what you desire, so, though it may be cliche, I put my faith in fire. -Saint Margaret

Faith isn't for the faint of heart. Both courage and naïveté are required. To grasp its art, you must look the other way when all the omens seem to say you will nog get what you desire, so, though it may be a cliché I put my faith in fire.

Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.

When the Church loses the Word of God it loses the very means by which God does his work. In its absence, therefore, a script is being written, however unwittingly, for the Church's undoing, not in one cataclysmic moment, but in a slow, inexorable slide made up of piece by tiny piece of daily dereliction.

God waits on us to admit him so that he can make his love real. That is how so many people think. And this is how much religion outside of Christian faith has thought about God's love, too.

Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.

Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there are evangelical churches that are offering only little therapeutic nostrums that are sweet but mostly worthless. One even wonders whether some current churchgoers might even be resistant were they to encounter a Christianity that is deep, costly, and demanding.