Quotes About Faith

Tomorrow will be better." But what if it's not?" I asked. Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

And people pray—millions of them—and claim they are answered. Are they? Was ever supplication sent into that sky by troubled humanity answered, or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for health and success and both are but natural in the marching of events. This is not evidence. But they say that they know, by spiritual uplifting, that they are heard, and comforted, and answered at the moment.

You cannot see or touch the divine with your gross senses. The divine is within you, not somewhere else

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10 v 9-10

Practice of the Art of Peace is an act of faith, a belief in the ultimate power of nonviolence

True prayer has no set form

When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

Your spirit is the true shield.

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

The idea of a crusade owes something to the Old Testament, something to the Muslim example of a jihad, or holy war. It owes something, too, to the inflammatory preaching of illuminate monks, and a great deal to the beginning of the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Moors; this combined the triumph of the faith with the acquisition of rich properties.

The crusades began with grotesqueries, comic and horrible. A band of Germans followed a goose they held to be God-inspired. Peter the Hermit, a fanatic, filthy, barefoot French monk, short and swarthy, with a long, lean face that strangely resembled that of his own donkey, preached a private crusade - known as the Peasants' Crusade - and promised his followers that God would guide them to the Holy City.

Man's exile is ignorance; his home is knowledge," said the twelfth-century Bishop Honorius of Autun. And Saint Anselm of Canterbury: "I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand.

The building of a suitable house for God stretched men's imaginations and abilities to the utmost. First came the idea, the inspiration, which hardened into purpose, which sought and found the means to bring the great achievement into being.

me. (Sometimes it's not good to reveal everything that God tells you, unless you are prepared to go through an awful period of criticism and unbelief until it comes to pass.)

Your circumstances are an opportunity for you to draw near to God and for God to reveal Himself to you through those circumstances in a greater way than He ever has before.

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A little hope goes a long way.

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

In future, every time I was tempted to sit back and ask God to solve my problems, I'd be able to roll up my sleeve and be reminded of what I'd learned at the zoo. That God gave us heaven and earth and loving hearts, and the rest is up to us.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

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Who cares about theology except the theologians? We are necessary, but less important than we think. The Church is Christ—Christ and the people. And all the people want to know is whether or not there is a God, and what is His relation with them, and how they can get back to Him when they stray.