Quotes About Faith

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

In my experience, it's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.