Quotes About Faith

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God" (1 Pet. 4:10).

Once we see that our salvation has never depended on anything we do, we have nothing to fear and nothing to prove. God in Christ has already provided every proof we need to be acquitted of every charge against us.

By grace, God helps those who not only can't help themselves, they don't even want to. By grace, what goes around stops at the foot of the cross, never to come around again.

the tame 'God' they've made up in their heads based on what they want God to be like. They keep the real God out of their consciousness. If they did become conscious of him, in all his holiness and power, they would hate him."4 GREG F

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

the gospel of grace can never be reduced to a doctrine that demands more human doing. The gospel of grace is a divine declaration that Jesus Christ has already secured all that's required to turn zombie corpses into chosen children. The only right response to such a glorious announcement is to discard every concern about what you must do, to cling desperately to what Christ has already done, and to call everyone around you to cling to Christ with you.

What matters most in life isn't anything that you have done or can do. It's what God chooses to do for you through Jesus Christ.

What left a mark No longer stings Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things. U2, "Grace

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

the moment you begin to believe you're worthy of the good things in your life - God gets all Old Testament on your ass and does something vicious, something insane, something totally uncalled for. He gives you lupus or He allows Satan to slaughter your children and cattle or He delivers Ohio to George W. Bush.

After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

In 1843 he declared: "I believe the bible, as it ought to be, as it came from the pen of the original writers." He then gave an example of a problematic text that was resolved in his revision of the Old Testament, implying that he had corrected the text to its original reading.11

Smith's procedure is similar to that of ancient pseudepigraphists who, in the words of one scholar, "created something new, an imaginary Sacred Past, the way it should have been.

Once the consecration of property was made, there was no retrieving one's former holdings should there be a loss of faith—"Behold thou shalt conscrate all thy properties that which thou hast unto me with a covena[n]t and Deed which cannot be broken & they Shall be laid before the Bishop of my church … & it shall come to pass that the Bishop of my church after that he has received the properties of my church that it cannot be taken from you."26

Statistically, people recover or die at the same rate with or without attempted faith healing.

In other words, since all good comes from God, and the Book of Mormon tries to persuade humankind to do and be good—be righteous and believe in Christ—it is therefore true and inspired even if, in the final analysis, it is not historical.

In a letter published in the Elders' Journal in July 1838, Smith responded to the question: "Do you believe Joseph Smith, Jr., to be a prophet?" His answer was: "Yes, and every other man who has the testimony of Jesus." He then quoted Revelation 19:10: "For the testimony of Jesus, is the spirit of prophecy

To return to the either/or definition of prophet, Smith could believe himself to be an inspired prophet and the Book of Mormon a true revelation even if it were not ancient history so long as he had a testimony of Jesus and viewed the book as an extension of that testimony.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

We must seek to keep a right view of Jesus and to remember He is always after greater love.

What one heart finds in Him is so different than what another discovers, yet none less true.

I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.