Quotes About Faith

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love...

When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt.

... if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Out of the three gifts of faith, hope and love, the greatest of all is love.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.

In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9

In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.

Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it at your heart, and trusting them to never pull the trigger.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Some true love turned and not a false turned true.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.