Quotes About Faith

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

God is just a name for our wonder.

Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

One of the many impressive things about The Way of Glory is how lightly it wears its scrupulous research. This fine novel invites you to lose yourself to the compelling character and tumultuous life of a young woman trying to find God and love at the heart of a crusade rooted in greed and hate. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years. Beit El and Hebron have been our land for 3,600-3,700 years. Any Jew or Christian or Muslim can open a Bible and read it. You have it there.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Les hommes se plaignent des centaines de fois devant Dieu de leur souffrance, de leur blessure, de leur douleur. Mais ils ne savent pas que c'est la souffrance et la douleur qui les rendirent bons et justes. Ils ne savent pas d'avantage que c'est la grâce et la faveur qui les éloignèrent de Créateur, qui les exclurent de son entourage.

En réalité, chacun de tes ennemis est ton remède, ton élixir, ton bienfaiteur, ton vrai ami. Car tu t'enfuis de lui et tu implores Dieu. En revanche, tes amis sont des ennemis. Car, en t'occupant, ils t'éloignent de la présence divine.

Tu ne peux trouver que si tu cherches. Tu ne peux accéder à la joie que si tu patientes, car la joie est l'enfant de la patience

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars" An ancient Persian proverb

Another misapprehension, shared alike by the followers of "pietism" and "scientism," was that the recognition of the non-unitary origin of the Pentateuch must be destructive of faith and inimical to religion. But is it not to circumscribe the power of God in a most extraordinary manner to assume that the Divine can only work effectively through the medium of a single document, but not through four? Surely God can as well unfold His revelation in successive stages as in a single moment of time.

From now on the destiny of the whole world is in Mark Levin's and God's hands.

It is not worth harming an ant for the sake of this whole faithless world; why then should the intelligent offend God and men for the sake of it?

Thought you were--' '--Raphael said--' 'I said, no way in hell--' 'Damn straight--' '--and Ransom was ready to come--' '--woke up and I had wings!

You chose a warrior, remember?" "As you chose an archangel.

You almost died." "But you brought me back." She cupped his face in her hands. "I always knew you were there. Death didn't have a chance against the Wall.