Quotes About Faith

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Things happen in God's time, not yours.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep an angel from her appointed assignment.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

Look at the eyes now -- the eyes of an Old Believer. Part of his mind was away somewhere, dancing with itself.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Often what we may consider to be sins against ourselves are actually sins against God. For instance, when we condemn ourselves we are playing god. When we worry and fret we are not trusting Him - and that is sinning against God, not against ourselves. Therefore, those are sins against God for Him to forgive.

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be good, toe the line, and heaven is yours, the first prize in the lottery of eternity. Disobey, react, cut the lifeline, and never-ceasing damnation is the booby prize. The dogma is, love the only god and you shall be safe. Fail in that love and he will not rescue you, not until you crawl and apologize and fawn before the altar. What kind of a religion demands such indignity?

Anything is possible where faith is concerned.

From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness.

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you—for that is the meaning of your life.

God can be addressed, but not expressed.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.