Quotes About Faith

Saint Francis of Assisi once said, "Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.

We have got to take the fight to the enemy and stop listening to the doom and gloom that surrounds us. Christians are not the weak, outnumbered, or powerless folks that the world around tries to tell us we are, and it's high time we begin to believe in our power as God's Army. The days of silence and complacency are over. No more hesitating! It's time to light up our world with a Holy Fire!

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Faith clearly means 'to move forward without knowing.' But for the last 300 years at least it's meant 'to know every-thing with certainty.' How has a word come to mean the exact opposite of what is originally meant?

This faith stuff, this religion stuff, is not about words, or even beliefs, it's about relationships and people.

He said he was both Muslim and Taoist.

One of the things that (we) religious people often do is try to change ourselves into what we think God or the Church wants us to be like.

just as we all know what it means to witness something being broken, we also know what it means to hope for restoration.

How sad. I've just had a walk down The Grange and passed an angry old man from my old church. He just turned round, stood, and glared, shaking his head at me. I don't understand why people are sometimes so hostile and never seem to be able to let go. This poor chap and many like him have attended church every week of their lives, and yet it seems to have had no impact whatsoever on their characters. Alas, it is a mystery indeed.

And my walking between two worlds (the Christian and the Druidic) loses any confusion in that place

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

You can't pray a lie.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

"Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.