Quotes About Faith

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.

Toward a Life of Prayer

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Nathan's mother is thinking about the body of Christ and the wings of angels. Her spirit lightens in the safety, the sanctity, of the church. Dark hair surrounds her pretty oval face. Light from the stained-glass window tints her skin. Nathan thinks about the body of the son of the farmer who owns the house Nathan's parents rented three weeks ago.

Christ rose so long ago but the air he rose through hasn't forgotten the slight red contrail from the wounds.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Søren Kierkegaard

They merged again one evening sitting on the porch swing watching fireflies and the thousands of stars above them, idly moving the swing back and forth with their feet. The night was unbearably beautiful with the constellations speaking their own strange language to each other. He told her he thought it might be the uninvented language used by Jesus and the Buddha to speak to each other.

Today Protestants provide their customers with over 33,800 denominational options—33and this from a movement whose founder prayed, That they all may be one (John 17:21). It is no wonder people question our sincerity.

Our hearts, like sails on a ship, are not designed to grasp the why and the where. Our hearts are designed to do one thing—respond.

It is safer to be part of a twelve-step group than a church.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.

Without an external source for theological truth, there is no limit on where your imagination will take you.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

In one of his most famous quotations, King sadly said, "I am [ashamed] and appalled that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in Christian America.

Pastors should preach truth from the pulpit. Teachers and parents should clearly point out when the president is lying and teach children what the truth is. We can all use social media to confront lies with facts. The truth will indeed set us free, but the unwillingness of the faith community to speak truth to power could push us toward political bondage.

you have substituted your nation and your army for God, your faith is more American than Christian, the Jesus you claim is not the Jesus of the New Testament and his kingdom will not be ushered in by the U.S. military.