Quotes About Faith

God does not "work in strange ways," alas, but in ways that are perfectly familiar.

God prefers a good atheist to a wicked believer.

Where does your lap go when you stand up? Where does your fist go when you open your hand? The same place God goes when you diminish life.

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part.

Michael Buckley

Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?

I don't know how else to describe it. I am afraid to say: 'I believe in the dream per se.' Just as it is, just as it was, just as when I am empty of night when I haven't dreamt.

came out favourably.176 Bonhoeffer exuded optimism

In the end, if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be to find what you love and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream. And, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing, and God, even if you don't believe in Him, He believes in you.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.

all art forms attempt to translate what is unseen into what is seen. Painter Joel Sheesley states, "I ... suggest that the definition of content in art is very much like that New Testament definition of faith that calls faith `the substance of things hoped for."' Art, especially as we engage in it with a redeemed vision, becomes an activity of faith, translating the "substance of things hoped for" with words, paint and other materials into the content and form of art.

sold for the price of a slave. And in a matter of hours they hoped he would die like a slave; on a cross. Clearly Jesus would die as a slave, nailed to the cross beam, but he would not die like a slave.

When scorn and ridicule come, we never have to bury our heads in our hands or lash out in hatred. Jesus has gone before. Because He endured the scorn for joy, we can too.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.

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