Quotes About Faith

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don't feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God's greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems. Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.

Some would look at Emily's life and think that a child born with Down's syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily's life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

You're living through this crazy season, but you're so determined to bring glory to Jesus, to stand on the faith you have and sing Him a song in the night. That's what I call a worship leader.

You'd be a better Christian if you learned how to read, Ruby had told him. Cain's mark was a protection; if the mark was his skin color, then God must have turned him white, not black.

Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death

Of course," Braithwhite added, "it didn't really happen that way. Biblical literalism is for the simple. But it's a useful parable.

La explicación es que el Dios del Nuevo Testamento es una persona, un padre, a quien le importamos.

Biblical literalism is for the simple.

Oh, what? You're too smart to believe in ghosts? Flying across the universe, though, that's logical

I am and will always be the optimist. The Hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams."(The 11th Doctor-Matt Smith)

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

I was a lapsing Christian, but in what direction was I lapsing? To nowhere, to nothingness. As absurd as the church was, it was an improvement over my actual life because there was at least a pretense of meaning there. Back in New York, I was just eating and taking up space, a depraved postmodern creature on the job, carrying pebbles up the media anthill.

Trump doesn't happen in a country where things are going well. People give in to their baser instincts when they lose faith in the future. The pessimism and anger necessary for this situation has been building for a generation, and not all on one side.

Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silverd branches of the glade.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Miracles do not happen.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.