Quotes About Faith

As it happened, adiversion had presented itself: a new clerk, a small girl of flawless complexion, her straw-colored hair pulled back in a ponytail, with a face that renewed a man's faith in Possibility.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.

The miracle of the ministry is that God handpicked us to be his representatives to this generation.

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist...' 'You're in the shit.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Faith wasn't a mystery to him; the mystery to him was holding on to faith. He

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist . . .

you can't have belief without intolerance.

I offer Nicholas Humphrey's Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation (New York: Copernicus

And Jesus lived happily ever after.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

For every man may sin, and yet again may sin; yet still is he God's handiwork, and still God is near by His handiwork to aid him ever to a fresh endeavour to righteousness.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Just because others cannot see your vision doesn't mean that vision isn't achievable.

If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

Part 2: Confidence

For the words of a vow are sacred not only among men and the angels, but among the demons as well.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

after I visited him, and I couldn't