Quotes About Faith

Christians both took over and then deviated from the central tenets of Judaism.

One way of understanding what followed is to recall that Jews were the people who said no. Offered a new form of relationship with God, they said they preferred the one they had, and this rejection set off several hundred years of rivalry and mutual recrimination, as the two groups competed for followers until the fourth century of the common era, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and thus seemed to win the battle.

Pastor André Trocmé, "believed that if you choose to resist evil, and you choose this firmly, then ways of carrying out that resistance will open up around you. His kind of originality generated originality in others.

I have seen God and he is this girl.

God forgives you your sins." I say right back, "And I forgive him his.

Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.

With everything seeming to fall apart, good habits were one thing to hold on to.

we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in the middle of the night when you're not sure how you will get through the next three breaths.

I breathed and thanked something that was not exactly God, something that was still here. I could almost imagine that it was still before when we were young and many things still lived.

the craggy gorge reminded me that we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in the middle of the night when you're not sure how you will get through the next three breaths.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid.

his conscience was clear and he had faith in the essential goodness of the universe and so felt cradled by it.

So if you find yourself hoping against God, and the thought of everyone being saved isn't good news to you, but bad news to you; if grace burns you like fire – you need to ask yourself why.

Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God's grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty! ~ Karl Barth, God Here and Now

Quit trying to manage your fears, and face them. Walk right into them— and realize that your control has been an illusion all along. You need Jesus every second.

Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.

God is not an "object" of scientific observation in this world. Even if you understood every individual part of a Ford motor car, took it apart and analyzed each piece, you still wouldn't find Henry Ford. And the car would no longer run. Yet a whole [running] Ford motor car is a beautiful testimony to a person named Henry Ford. God may not be a thing in His world, yet the whole thing can bear testimony to it's maker.

Jesus said, "Whatever you [all] ask in my name, I'll do it for you" (John 14:13). In my name--and who is He? He's the Plot--the Word of the Author, who is the narrator.

We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.

The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.

The deepest story is not The Fall. The deepest story is not your sin. The deepest story is that God is making you in His image. Jesus is His image, and you are His Temple, Body, and Bride. The deepest story is that God is making you in His Image and will not fail.

He died and rose from the dead saying, "My Father is your Father." You are not an orphan. You are not an extra. You have His name.

We can write ourselves out of our own story, but not out of God's Story, the Deepest Story.