Quotes About Faith

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Only God can judge me now

fear no man but only God

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.

And how am I to face the oddsOf man's bedevilment and God's?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things.

I'll take hope over hopelessness everyday.

The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

I had lost faith in biography.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of lovingkindness, that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents," wrote the second-century church father Tertullian to explain what made the faith attractive. "'See,' they say, 'how they love one another!'" (Barry 1985, 57).

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.