Quotes About Faith

The Israelites give ample proof that signs may only addict us to signs, not to God.

Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.

My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.

As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering.

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

Jesus did not mix his spirituality with politics.

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

Hebrews: No one knows who wrote Hebrews, but it probably first went to Christians in danger of slipping back into their old, rule-bound religion. It interprets the Old Testament, explaining many Jewish practices as symbols that prepared the way for Christ.

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.