Quotes About Faith

Doubt is God's way of helping us not go there, though the road may be very hard and long.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

I've learned to be fine with not knowing.

We can't get our minds around God. I don't think the Christian faith is fundamentally rational, by which I mean it cannot be captured fully by our rational faculties—and in fact, more often than not, confounds them. A God who can be comfortably captured in our minds, with little else for us to find out apart from an occasional adjustment, is no God at all. Expecting faith in God to be rational is often more the problem than the solution.

Think of it this way: the same wisdom that was with God when God "ordered" creation (Gen. 1) is available to us as we seek to "order" the chaos of our lives.

When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?

Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.

A faith that eats its own not only drives people out but also sends up a red flare to the rest of humanity that Christianity is just another exclusive members-only club, and that Jesus is a lingering relic of antiquity, rather than a powerful, present-defining spiritual reality; a means of gaining power rather than relinquishing it. And who needs that, really?

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Why do they both refer to your deity while mating?" Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. "Is it a request for a blessing?

getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion.

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.

Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

He'd learned long ago that logic and facts never meant anything to true believers—of anything.

They're not. It's a multifaith gathering," Alik said. "Praying away the aliens.

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

You know what I think? Edenists don't get caught in the beyond because you're cool enough under pressure to figure your way out. Well, me too, pal. Laton said there was a way out. I believe him. The Kiint found it. Just knowing that it's possible is my ticket to exit.

Always trust in proven survivors.

So he held his services in the hall, and never complained when only thirty or forty people turned up. The church must be a focal point for unity, a place where people could come together and share their faith, not a baron demanding tribute.

Horst didn't believe in ghosts.

And its strong continuing religious beliefs were an indication of how widespread the faculty was, granting the "supernatural" events a respectable orthodoxy.

You're wrong," she said. "Both of you. If I know anything now, it's that our religions are lies. Horrid, dirty lies. I don't believe in God, or destiny, not any more.

I consider it extremely unlikely. Which I admit sounds like an agnostic answer rather than a definitive atheist assertion.

Too many people in the HDA frowned on the Gospel Warriors; the atheists and cynics, mocking the old concepts of faith. He'd long ago learned not to mention his devotion to the Lord to his fellow officers