Quotes About Faith

These days, we don't dare carry Bibles with us openly. We gather in groups of two and three, and use our smart phones to download Scripture from the Internet. We meet long enough to read a passage, discuss its meaning, then encourage and pray for one another. After that we disband.

When we fail to see that our culture, even our Christian expression of our culture, is not the same thing as the gospel, we may identify those who practice their Christian faith differently than we do as aliens and enemies.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

has been completely and decisively forgiven at the cross of Christ (10:14).

God is not being unkind to us by not sharing… the point is that we are not built to understand the big picture, precisely because we live in time and God does not. If we could see the end from the beginning, and understand how a billion lives and a thousand generations and unspeakable sorrows and untold joys are all woven into a tapestry of perfect beauty, then we would be God.

Because God lives forever and I will not, I can experience the several different times of my life knowing that they are part of a bigger picture that I cannot see but which is visible to a good and wise God who sees the whole as beautiful.

Ecclesiastes makes the… astonishing claim that living well here and now in this world depends on time travel being possible—not to us, but to God…God will retrieve every single injustice, every single time, and every single activity…Knowing that God is outside of time and sees it all and will, in the end, bring to judgement both the righteous and the wicked, stops me needing to be in control of everything that happens to me.

For Paul, it is inconceivable for God to accomplish redemption for people and not bring that accomplished redemption to its consummated end in glorification.

Those without Christ often abandon themselves to eating and drinking because sometimes it looks as if that's all there is to do before we die. But those who love Christ cherish eating and drinking because it looks a little like what we will do after we die.

We speak of God because he first spoke to us.

While he, the immortal One, would not be overcome by death, he would die for the eternal life of us mortals.

If you truly believe in a supernatural afterlife, to be sure, nothing can really disappoint you. But there is no consolation in being the last Mohican.

I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?

In this sense, the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one's trust in other human beings.

the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one's trust in other human beings.

when dealing with the Absolute, there can be no such thing as debt.

the extraordinary self-importance of the Jesuit conviction that an all-knowing and all-powerful being would freely choose to entrap himself in flesh and undergo terrible suffering, all for the sake of a single species, designed to be imperfect, only some of which were going to be rescued from damnation anyway.

he had a way of standing and looking into the distance like he really believed in something

If one does not believe in the king, then the money vanishes with him.

Osage concluded that this force was ultimately unknowable and gave it the name Wakonda, which could alternately be translated as 'God' or 'Mystery'.

Only one life 'Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. -C.S. Lewis