Quotes About Faith

We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.

The experience of living in this modernized world has, indeed, shaken many of the assumptions upon which belief rests. It does so most often in indirect ways. It is more the psychology of our times that undermines Christian belief than it is, say, the arguments against it mounted by the new atheists

t takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. After all, millions have done so throughout the West. They are not in any peril. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today's context.

However, there is a proviso here. Scripture will prove sufficient if we are able to receive from it all that God has put into it.

If God says homosexuality is a sin, why didn't he answer my child's many prayers pleading to be changed? Why does God apparently condemn people for something they were born with and that he won't change for them? For both child and parent, these questions can lead to a crisis of faith.

In my mind, choice is the basis of Christianity, but the choice is not about sexuality, it is about how we treat other people. That is the choice about which we should be most concerned.

Maybe my story needs to be told specifically because it is less heart wrenching. In spite of periods where I have struggled and been in pain, my story provides generous glimpses into what a Christian attitude toward homosexuality might look like.

Si un pays entier vous rejette, que faut-il espérer d'un homme?

Puisses-tu ne jamais oublier que je crois en toi.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.

I am for God. I don't think there's any hope for the world except in God.

there's something inside the human heart, when truth is preached, that says, "Yes, that's it.

Whatever color a person's skin, whatever language he speaks, God loves him.

The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of redemption,

am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church

Anyone who exposes himself to the Devil, even in a movie, is exposing himself to real danger.…

Satan is trying to disrupt everything that God is doing

I'm not so concerned as to whether God is on my side or not, but I am concerned as to whether I'm on God's side or not.

despite the unpopularity of the notion, surrender plays a crucial role in the spiritual journey as understood by most major religions and spiritual traditions. Far from being a sign of weakness, only surrender to something or someone bigger than us is sufficiently strong to free us from the prison of our egocentricity. Only surrender is powerful enough to overcome our isolation and alienation.

Only suffering and struggle, and all the dark experiences that come with them, will grow a soul big enough to hold our life. This happens when we ground ourselves in the blood, sweat, and tears of ordinary life.

We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.

In order for our knowing of God's love to be truly transformational, it must become the basis of our identity. Our identity is who we experience ourselves to be—the I each of us carries within. An identity grounded in God would mean that when we think of who we are, the first thing that would come to mind is our status as someone who is deeply loved by God.

Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known. Both, therefore, have an important place in Christian spirituality. There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self, and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God.