Quotes About Faith

I am a woman whose identity has been changed by coming face to face with the One who has the power to completely transform me.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3–4)

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Not every lost soul is a lost cause

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The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.

Rather than insist that a situation must prove itself flawless before we commit ourselves, we should assume that a good opportunity is very possibly one we should choose.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

We all lose dreams and cherished people, which could make life a continual experience in despair. But if we lean on the great two-thousand-year-old faith of the church, then life is a continual experience of the salvation of God, to whom we belong. In God's hands nothing, and no one, is ever lost. Our only comfort. According

Try closing your doors to worldliness and you will see a thousand others opened by God Almighty, the Opener of Doors. That is, He is the only one who opens doors. thus, if you wish His door of providence, good pleasure, and appreciation to open to you, then you must keep your doors closed to all worldly expectations for a lifetime.

if we let it speak to us rather than squeezing it into our self-created mold. Even God can be known truly, though not absolutely.[54] As Athanasius observed, God can be apprehended but not comprehended;

in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...

This experience, Lick would say, gave him an instant insight into the scientific method: Always be extremely careful in your work—and in your proclamations of faith.

generally treating free-market capitalism as a kind of state religion.

When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised by God into wholeness of life in the image of Christ right there at that point. So the process of being conformed to the image of Christ takes place at the points of our unlikeness to Christ, and the first step is confrontation.

We depend upon cognitive assent and affective assurances to substantiate the reality of our relationship with God. If we can't "know" or "feel" God, we customarily doubt our relationship with God. But such "knowing" and "feeling" restrict God to the narrow limits of our minds and senses and reduce our relationship with God to the maintenance of such feedback.

Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the source of our being.

This means that our spiritual journey is not our setting out (by gathering information and applying it correctly) to find God (as an object "out there" to be grasped and controlled by us). It is a journey of learning to yield ourselves to God and discovering where God will take us.

Holistic spirituality is a pilgrimage of deepening responsiveness to God's control of our life and being.