Quotes About Faith

Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Faith ? acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

What really matters is what you believe.

But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. — Psalms 71:14

Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion. Were it not for my relationship with a God of my experience I would be dead. Actually I did die. Now I'm this other guy with a pencil in one hand and a bullhorn in the other.

Dear God: Please help me to know what the fuck to do with my life and how to fix it.

Praizzzze Geeezus!

In Jerusalem, belief as a form of aggression achieved near perfection. Whether you went deep in the earth or climbed the highest hill, someone's faith would track you down, catch you in its sights, and demand that you choose sides.

Action is what separates a belief from an opinion. Beliefs are imprinted through actions.

My faith is in the belief that sacrifice for others is inherently good and making the choice to do good is the gift of being human.

memory is a faithless friend

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

When organized religion organizes around the things Jesus would be pleased with, amazing things can happen.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

Whatever the tradition is, if that tradition becomes more important than the mission of seeing people come to know Jesus, then it's time for the whip.

His father was numbed with astonishment. "Mighty little do I know about God," he finally replied. "[But] what I do know about God changes my life.

As Thomas Merton put it, "A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.