Quotes About Faith

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture?

The temptation that Jesus resisted in the wildreness [a crown without a cross; worldly glory], many of us, His followers, still long for.

The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.

Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.

A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The

All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.

When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When

My publisher conducted a website poll, and of the 678 respondents only 23 felt satisfied with the time they were spending in prayer. That

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.

by denying forgiveness to others, we are in effect determining them unworthy of God's forgiveness, and thus so are we.

We pray because we can't help it. The

God is the ultimate judge of hypocrisy in the church, I decided; I would leave such judgment in God's capable hands. I began to relax and grow softer, more forgiving of others. After all, who has a perfect spouse, or perfect parents or children? We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections—why give up on the church?

G. K. Chesterton once wrote, "All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world." When a poll of college students asked

En cambio, Jesucristo nunca obligó a nadie a creer en él. Prefería actuar por medio de la atracción, sacando a los humanos de sí mismos para atraerlos hacia él.

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Always, no matter the circumstances, we have the assurance of "Immanuel," which simply means "God with us.

Si Dios se dedicara a enviar rayos como respuesta a las malas doctrinas, nuestro planeta brillaría como un árbol navideño.