Quotes About Faith

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

God's servant, like the god himself, wore new clothes every day.

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

Our athiests are pious people.

Our weakness consists not in this, that we are in opposition to others, but in this, that we are not completely so; that we are not entirely severed from them, that we still seek a "Communion", a "Bond", that in communion we have an ideal. One faith, one god, one idea, one hat, for all! If all were brought under one hat, certainly no one would need to take off his hat for another anymore.

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else

Cada persona tiene que conocer cuál es el dios o el demonio que maneja los hilos de su vida.

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

Judgments of the importance of a historical phenomena may be judgments of value or faith, namely, when they refer to what is alone interesting, or alone in the long run valuable to it. Or, on the other hand, they may refer to its influence on other historical processes as a causal factor.

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined. There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.

Maxine Rose Schur

And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope.

Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed

Heaven is always taken by storm.

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

Will you tell me how a man's to live, and face his life, if he can't believe that truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen though it takes all the years there are? While I stand up and have breath in my lungs I shall be one flame of that fire; it's all the life I have.