Quotes About Faith

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator—until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.

We believe that our salvation depends solely upon God's work in us, and not upon our testimony; and the little child with stammering lips, but wrought upon by the Holy Spirit, will precede vain scribes into the Kingdom of Heaven.