Quotes About Faith

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein.

Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Belief becomes biology.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

The older I get," observed Mr. van Koppen, "the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.

Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.

So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it.

A skeptic once said to me, 'I don't believe the Bible because it has miracles.' I said, 'Name one.' He said, 'Turning water into wine. Do you believe that?' I said, 'Yeah, it happens all the time.' He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Well, rain goes through the grapevine up into the grape, and the grape turns into wine. All Jesus did was speed it up a little bit.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.

Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." —JAMES TOUR

Christians are not supposed to "just have faith." Christians are commanded to know what they believe and why they believe it. They are commanded to give answers to those who ask (1 Pet. 3:15), and to demolish arguments against the Christian faith (2 Cor. 10:4-5).

If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain." —C. S. LEWIS

As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we'll see that conclusions such as "God exists" and "the Bible is true" are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him—but the parts he did understand!)