Quotes About Faith

God with us.

Why doesn't God do something so spectacular that we would know what we are supposed to do?

submission. God doesn't want slaves.

Love comes from God, and relationships not grounded in the love of God are based on the exploitation of other people. Only through the love of God can we see the true value and beauty of another person.

The reason he has a billion and a half followers today is because he is alive, speaks, and heals today.

What separates us from God is our own sense of separateness.

God's perfect plan is unfolding in the lives of the people they have left behind.

Failing to use our life opportunities wisely and lovingly is a rejection of God.

This world is not heaven, but it doesn't have to be hell.

When you do God's work, God helps you do it.

One of the most powerful things we can do is pray. Prayer can change the world.

Behavior that looks religious but is devoid of genuine love is abhorrent to God. God loves an honest agnostic more than a religious hypocrite.

When we love God, love our brothers and sisters, and love ourselves, our Maker is pleased.

A saint is anyone beloved by God and who knows it.

The important thing is to realize one's potential here and now. We are not to rely on a desire to escape from one's responsibilities of being God's people, here and now.

In times of danger, pray to God to open heaven to you. Invite the angels to show themselves to you. Ask Jesus to save you. This world will fade away.

The masses of men live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them? The issue is not what it counsels them to do for others whose need may be greater, but what religion offers to meet their own needs. The search for an answer to this question is perhaps the most important religious quest of modern life.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power. I have seen it happen again and again.

They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, some day on their way meet Jesus.1

Again the crucial question: Is there any help to be found for the disinherited in the religion of Jesus?

THE significance of the religion of Jesus to people who stand with their backs against the wall has always seemed to me to be crucial.

MANY and varied are the interpretations dealing with the teachings and the life of Jesus of Nazareth. But few of these interpretations deal with what the teachings and the life of Jesus have to say to those who stand, at a moment in human history, with their backs against the wall.

Today, at the close of Thurman's century, those people who live most obviously with their backs against the wall—for instance, the homeless, the working and jobless poor, the substance abused and abusers, the alienated, misguided, and essentially abandoned young people—are rarely within hearing or seeing range of the company of Jesus' proclaimed followers.

The conventional Christian word is muffled, confused, and vague.