Quotes About Faith

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

the important issue facing Christians who suffer is not "Is God responsible?" but "How should I react now that this terrible thing has happened?

La Biblia no hace ninguna promesa color rosa acerca de vivir en una primavera eterna. Lo que hace es señalar hacia la fe que nos ayuda a prepararnos para las estaciones de sequía. Vendrán duros inviernos, seguidos por veranos ardientes. No obstante, si las raíces de la fe adquieren la suficiente profundidad para llegar hasta donde se halla el Agua Viva, podremos sobrevivir a los tiempos de sequía y florecer en los tiempos de abundancia.

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

True followers of God quietly humble themselves and rise again courageously.

El hecho de que el amor no opera bajo las reglas del poder ayudaría a explicar por qué a veces parece como si Dios sintiera timidez en cuanto a utilizar su propio poder.

discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

Jesus extended the privileges of God's chosen family to the whole world, regardless of race or nation. Thus an obscure Jewish sect became a new global faith, Christianity, open to all.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.

Today, if I had to answer the question "Where is God when it hurts?" in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: "Where is the church when it hurts?" We form the front line of God's response to the suffering world.

Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.

Some Christians respond to the divide by making harsh judgments about the people they disagree with — ?one of the main reasons evangelicals have an unsavory reputation. I cringe when I hear such words, and respond by keeping mostly quiet about my faith. Neither approach is healthy.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.