Quotes About Faith

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of old age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty that is forever. And so we'll be eager to leave the temporary deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful we might never want to leave.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.

The gospel, as Paul knew, is folly to pagans. Trusting it would appear, not as a virtue, but as a vice. "Faith" of this Pauline sort can therefore come about only in response to the grace and revelation of the God of Abraham, the God who raised Jesus from the dead.

Such a dream would be the moral or even emotional equivalent of a poor person suddenly winning the lottery: without effort, suddenly all your problems are over! Just pray about it and there won't be any more moral battles! But virtue is not like that, and Christian moral living is not like that either. The romantic dream of an inner transformation that will make moral effort unnecessary is untrue both to the New Testament and to worldwide and millennia-long Christian experience.

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love.

Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other then the Glory of God and the refreshment of the soul

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

When Babaji has drawn you to him, everything is given to you in his own shadow. One must learn this and drive away worries from the mind.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

"To forgive oneself"? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

in hard times hope itself is a discipline because we have to work on it every day but I also think if we don't find hope as a discipline it is a self-fulfilling problem

God, she was convinced, would look the other way. It was Christmas after all.