Quotes About Faith

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

We usually get what we anticipate.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.