Quotes About Faith

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

?nsan, Tanr?'y? yüceltmek için küçük ?akalar?na, özellikle kötü ?akalar?na Tanr?'yla birlikte gülmekten daha iyi ne yapabilir?

God is gonna get ya

I can't help feeling sceptical about the Bible's claim that God made man in his own image...He could have achieved that by creating a couple of mirrors; or a closed-circuit television.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

When Nouri said that he wanted to be with God, Ibn Arwani said: "First you must learn who 'you' are. Then you must learn what it means to 'want.' What it means to 'be.' Then you must learn what 'God' is. Otherwise, it's just a game. A pretense.

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

grace (free forgiveness when you don't deserve it a bit).

Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.

I am very grateful for churches I know in many parts of the world, mainly the Two Thirds World, which are seeking to live like the first disciples and, like them, are discovering the power of the Holy Spirit who seems only to be available to us when we make ourselves totally available to God

It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.

in this book I want to address a question that I think is commonly in the minds of Christian people when they read the Acts of the Apostles: what can we learn from these people who turned the world upside down in so short a space of time?

man scatters seed on the ground … the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how." Had the farmer from scripture postponed his sowing until he understood the biology of seed germination, he wouldn't have lasted very long.

Karl Rahner said, 'I don't believe in miracles, but they sustain me.

Svrha je takozvani život poslije smrti?" "U koji ti ne vjeruješ", rekla je Emmylou. "Naravno da ne!" "Pa ?ega se onda bojiš? Nestanka? Nestaješ svake no?i svojeg života. Pa što onda zna?i ako zavlada trajni mrak? Ti ionako ništa ne?eš znati, po definiciji.

We live out in our everyday relationships what we believe about God. That is, there is a direct connection between what one believes and how one lives.

When you spot someone with failings, see them the way they one day can be. Pray them to be that.

Faith comes from having confidence in the universal force that guides us and having confidence in ourselves that we are more then capable.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.