Quotes About Faith

When you abandon the Lord, it's only a matter of time before you start worshipping the Führer.

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves. The good news is that people generally rise to the level of expectations placed on them.

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It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.

Wise, spiritual faith—the kind I'm advocating—is a commitment of trust based on solid, though incomplete, evidence that we're believing in the right things and moving in the best direction.

When we fail to answer someone's questions and objections, we become just one more excuse for them to disbelieve.

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.

The most important thing you can do to increase your effectiveness with middle schoolers is to deepen your connection to God.

But a broader—more scriptural—view of worship is about serving the poor, righting injustice, caring for those in need. When teenagers—whether they're already followers of Jesus or not—experience this kind of worship-in-action, they have an enormous opportunity to have a tangible experience of God in their lives.

In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience. He is free to discover his own potential and pursue his own legitimate interests, tempered, however, by a moral order that has its foundation in faith and guides his life and all human life through the prudent exercise of judgment.

The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.

people of tradition, faith, and custom do not reject science or reason, but they do not worship them, either. They have learned and experienced the value of eternal truths and past wisdom, including from the ancients, which reflects the basis of America's founding, as concisely set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

do not fear Peter [the pope], but his secretary scares me."30

If God's justice could be recognized as just by human comprehension, it would not be divine. MARTIN LUTHER All

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

The function of religion is to make us feel better, by peddling a lie. The function of philosophy, and a carefully chosen birthday card, is to make us feel worse, by telling the truth. And the truth is of course: we get worse.

As a writer, have faith in your unconscious mind. Unbeknownst to you, it will guide your story, make connections, and weave the tale for you

Mark Rubinstein

It's a mean story, Helen fumed. An absentee father who demands that his children put him at the center of their lives and beg for his return. Sister Priscilla didn't think it was mean, apparently. She was so in love with God that she had married him, even though she would not see his face, hear his voice, or feel his embrace for as long as she lived. One of us, Helen, thought is flying blind.

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?