Quotes About Faith

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn't he?

Don't take away the power of the sacrifice he made by doubting it or wishing it away.

I'm saying if you do what you were made to do, then you'll find the peace you've been looking for. You can't work for it, you know. You just have to rest in it. - Birdie

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Whether you end up in heaven or hell, it's not God's plan it's your own.

A crucial premise of interpretation is that the Bible is designed to challenge us and our worldview.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Allah desires that you die in his name (Qur'an 3:169-70; 9:39; 19:70-72); Yahweh died for you to have abundant life in his name (John 10:10).

Thus, a "psalm" may be defined secondly as sacred literature for meditation.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

People the world had broken in some ineffable way, the same way my uncle had been broken, the same way we all end up a bit broken—a collection of small hurts, hairline cracks in the foundation—who were only looking for something to give their lives meaning, hope, or at least help deal with the confusion. Some of us find it in faith, some in science, and some in the lightless places between those pole stars.

Where shall we express our hopes and fears? If we post our concerns on Facebook, we may forget to cast our cares on the Lord, the one who sustains us in our sorrows.

This is the iGods' alluring and dangerous promise—to place us in the center of our own self-reflexive universe. But what if we don't necessarily know what is best?

our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.

We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods' promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?

While we like to think that our theology shapes our understanding of the world, our understanding of the world often shapes our theology. The central metaphors of an era will often shift our notions of God.

chance is only for the people willing to give it ago n taking it is only encourage by the people who believe in you !

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one thing that the medical profession cannot do and that is save people from being idiots.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.