Quotes About Faith

The first developmental task in life is to establish a basic sense of trust. We must learn that the other (Mom, Dad, the world out there) is safe and trustworthy.

The problem of evil may be more accurately described as the mystery of evil.

That formula—Bible reading and prayer—will result in the same increase in faith for anyone willing to trust God. How

The spiritual wound can be healed. But it must be done by grieving, and that is painful.

The Word of God not only offers hope and forgiveness, but power to live a new life of integrity and faith.

Looking at Yourself Through the Eyes of Your Higher Power

we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

Tôi có quy?n tin b?t c? Ä'i?u gì tôi th?y tin. Tôi ch? c?n ch?p nh?n h?u qu? cho ni?m tin c?a mình.

Many religious denominations teach the concept of man as wretched and stained with original sin. Original sin as taught by some religious bodies means you are bad from the moment you are born. The teaching of original sin accounts for a lot of the child-rearing practices that are geared toward breaking a child's unruly will and natural propensity toward evil.

In divorcing salvation from achievement, the Christian had established the priority of being over doing.

Like David uniting Judah and Israel, but to no avail, Bright's textbook facilitated an uneasy union between theology and history that has not held among most historians today. Two histories, one biblical (Geschichte) and the other the product of archaeology and sociological reconstruction (Historie), have for the time being seemingly gone their separate ways.40 For Bright, however, genuine history and genuine theology, as evidenced in Israel's faith, were one and the same.

But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.

I don't think of my fellow men as dangerous. I think of them as capable of occasional dangerous mistakes.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.

Some also have wished that the next way to their Father's house were here, that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over, but the Way is the Way, and there is an end.

But I thought you were dead,' I put in. 'Mors janua vitae,' he smiled.

Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. The

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club? It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior. He teaches us to first cling to, and then enables us to adore with the faith He so graciously supplies, the mercy of God. This mercy has its cause and effect in the work of Jesus on the cross. 13.

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up