Quotes About Faith

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace

culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, "Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?

A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado.

Even the greatest of miracles do not resolve the problems of this earth: all people who find physical healing eventually die. We need more than miracle. We need a new heaven and a new earth, and until we have those, unfairness will not disappear.

The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood producer polluting our culture? The politician threatening my moral principles? The drug lord ruling my inner city? If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

In a sort of negative proof of the power of prayer, three times God commanded Jeremiah to stop praying; God wanted no alteration in his plans to punish a rebellious nation.

We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.

Nosotros, sin Dios, no podemos. Dios, sin nosotros, no quiere», decía San Agustín.

El problema de Dios no es que no sea capaz de hacer ciertas cosas. Su problema es que él ama. El amor le complica la vida a Dios, como se la complica a cualquiera"1.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

AS ANDREW GREELEY SAID, If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusion and disorder from one's life, there is no point  in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with Jesus of Nazareth.7-9 I grew up expecting that a relationship with God would bring order, certainty, and a calm rationality to life. Instead, I have discovered that living in faith involves much dynamic tension.

Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are. Where misery is, there is the Messiah, and now on earth the Messiah takes form in the shape of the church. That's what the body of Christ means.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.

History is a test of faith, and the correct response to that test is persistent prayer.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that He should not exist; that the soul should be joined to the body, and that we should have no soul; that the world should be created, and that it should not be created . . . BLAISE PASCAL1

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.