Quotes About Faith

If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. —A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)

Time with God will open up His ways. Reading books won't do it. Reading theology won't do it. Studying the creation won't do it. Going to church won't do it. Listening to religious music won't do it. Listening to great preaching won't do it. Even worshiping through hymns and songs won't do it.

When the Word and Spirit come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the nation, and indeed the world, has ever seen.1 —SMITH WIGGLESWORTH (1859–1947)

we have the Word without the Spirit, we tend to "dry up"; if we have the Spirit without the Word, we tend to "blow up"; if we have both Spirit and Word, we tend to "grow up" and "fire up." But when each is properly joined in common union, there is explosive power to be had.

The Bible was not given to replace the supernatural or miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.

I'm saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It's going to take us a miracle to get through this." Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. "At least they're getting more polite when they try to kill us," Shane said.

I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.

Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects.

Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid

Rachel Caine

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

I'm as good a Catholic as you, Jess said. I just don't hold with making the world into copies of what I like.

Jess. Khalila drew his gaze back to her. What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Worried about me? Brendan snorted, Hell freezes and the devil skates before that happens. You can survive anything.

You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.

But I warn you, what pulls them together is nothing a mortal man may battle; it is a holy fire, I tell you, a most holy fire that burns in them. The devil can stoke a fire as well as ever God could.

Faith. Faith in what? He'd believed in the Library, the ideal of it, anyway. He believed that it was doing good, and more, that it wanted to do good. But now he'd seen the dirty underside, and he couldn't hold on to his faith much longer.

For the first time in my life I have to depend

Hope was a great deal like fear.

You don't fight the sea. You leave until the flood's over.

We've worshipped lots of gods in our history," she said. "We've killed most of them. You might want to be wary.

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.