Quotes About Faith

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, theyre not real worshippers, theyre merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), theyre slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.

People are slaves to the world, and as long as they live favorable and comfortable lives, they are loyal to religious principles. However, at hard times, the times of trials, true religious people are scarce.

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full throated chorus? We cannot know. All we can do is to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine.

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

The people your brother killed - well, they all had souls. They weren't Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn't Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that's all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007: 143)

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish; just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

The principle on the Belief Window has to change first or the behavior will never change.

Unless the belief changes, the behavior will not change.

A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It's like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

Choosing the way of Christ not only means identifying with Christ, however; 'it also means identifying with the stubborn, recalcitrant, and frequently offensive flock that he calls his own. . . .Yet as flawed as the people of God are, if the Lord is to be our God then his people must be our people too.

As one person put it, passing on the good news is simply a matter of one beggar telling another where to find bread. That

But to be true to God's Word, optimism must always be optimism in God's power combined with a healthy pessimism in our own abilities. God can do all things with or without us; without him, we can do nothing (compare Ps. 127:1–3).