Quotes About Faith

any theology of religions that wants to call itself a Christian theology will have to be guided by the Bible, especially the New Testament.

any Christian theology of religions worth its name has to be biblical. If it's not, it may make for a good philosophy of religions, but it can't be called Christian.

All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on.

words must respect the Mystery and never idolatrously take its place.

if a Christian no longer places Jesus Christ at the heart of what God is up to in all of history, she's no longer really a Christian.

we let go in order to let God.

I can imagine that some of my Buddhist friends, having read the above description of my struggles with a God-as-You, might scratch their heads and ask: "What's the problem? For us, no God, therefore no person, therefore no problem." I admire their immunity and freedom from such difficulties. But I am, or I want to be, a Christian.

And yet, and yet, if my belief in Jesus as the only Son of God requires me, explicitly or implicitly, to denigrate or subordinate other religious figures and religions, then such a belief becomes a clot in the free and life-giving flow of my faith's circulatory system. I'm sorry. It just does.

That's it! That's the crux of the problem: Christian dualism has so exaggerated the difference between God and the world that it cannot really show how the two form a unity.

But if there is an ongoing, nagging disconnect between, on the one hand, what I can and must affirm to be true and good on the basis of my present "culturally conditioned" experience and, on the other hand, what "the Bible tells me is so," something has to give. Sometimes something has to give on both sides.

So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy to deliver it.

To believe in Jesus as the Christ means at its deepest to confess…that Jesus has an abiding and constitutive significance for the approach of the Kingdom of God and thus for the comprehensive healing of human beings…. For Christians, Jesus therefore is the decisive and definitive revelation of God."26

the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

Happy are those who can relieve suffering with prayer Happy those who can rely on God to see them through. They can wait patiently for the end. But we who have put our faith in the goodness of man and now see man's image debas'd lower than the wolf or the hog— Where can we turn for consolation? Owen

It has been said with some truth that religion is, basically, humankind's attempt to communicate with the weather.

Ama bir ÅŸeyi yeterince çok istersen her zaman çare bulunur.

Pepino, there is something you must understand before we go to see the Abbot. It is your hope that because of your faith in St. Francis he will help you and heal your donkey. But had you thought, perhaps, that he who dearly cared for all of God's creatures might come to love Violetta so greatly that he would wish to have her at his side in Eternity?

Father Polda had walked up from his little chapel in Steg, as was his nightly custom, to sit and talk with the men and their families, for it was mostly under the sun and the stars that he preached, or sought the God that he served.

And so, in a sense she made a prayer, and having done so, it existed; it was loosed. It was directed at the figure of the one whose love and duty called for her to intercede at the throne; and as with all prayers that arise from the sincere and loving heart, it was both heard and felt, in the far corners of the universe.

I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.

You are writing a Gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithless or true; Say, what is the Gospel According to you?

All roads lead to Mecca Bingo.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.