Quotes About Faith

Dreher laments we now live in a "post-Christian" America, but he's wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each other as we love ourselves. It's possible, however, that we live in a post-accepting-bigotry-cloaking-itself-in-the-raiments-of-Christ America. And, you know. I can live in that America just fine.

It's because I remind them they're not God," I said. "And that if there is one, I'm closer to Him than they are.

Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you're talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come true isn't one way or another about it.

Your pinky promises sit on a throne of lies

People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.

When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.

Well, isn't that just like religion for you, Archie," he said. "One day it's a nice way to spend your weekends and the next you're in the middle of a righteous theological clusterfuck.

In one corner, a group of men were kneeling on a carpeted area of the bay and praying.

But there are deals, and there are promises. A deal you can make with anyone. A promise is something you make with someone you trust.

You're a doubter of the perfectibility of the human soul." "I think to perfect a soul you have to have one to begin with.

Wicked isn't crazy, it's just got religion

Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.

Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal. What is your goal?

And when we designed the church, we intentionally made the divine aspect of it as ambiguous as possible. People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear. We

Don't think that it's your fate to feel badly in your heart. Act until your heart is singing again!

Never deny yourself love, my child. For to deny love is to deny God's greatest gift. And who are we to deny God?

Loved ones are sometimes taken from us, either by death or other circumstances outside our control. Yes, we should lament their departure and yes, we should pray for them often. But we shouldn't dwell so deeply upon such vacancies that life itself becomes empty.

What is required to get a group of people to pray? They must see how big God is and how little they are. This will produce an awareness of their need. They will be deeply troubled. Yet they must also see that God is truly willing to hear the prayers of people like them. If either is missing, they will not approach the throne of grace. If both are believed, they will pray no matter how inconvenient the time. You will not be able to stop them.

Clever techniques borrowed from slick salesmen have no place in evangelism because they are not crafted with the character of God in mind.

Are you there, Felix? Are you there?

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.