Quotes About Faith

Satan took Jesus to the top of the temple and said, "Let's run a little test. Throw yourself down, and we will see if Scripture is true, if Angel's will come and bear you up." And Jesus said, "Thou shalt not put the Lord your God to the test!" (see Luke 4:9-12). This last century argued that the only things you CAN believe are things you can put to the test. And Satan smiles, for that means we cannot believe in God, who is truth.

Worship is the opposite of the scientific method. It's not conquest but surrender. In an experiment, a scientist tests things to comprehend them. In worship God tests us and comprehends us.

The tribulation and poverty weren't the riches. They EXPOSED the riches: faith, hope, and love. Although this world burns away, writes the apostle Paul, these three will remain. Faith in Jesus, hope in Jesus, love that IS Jesus--this is treasure. The jewel exposed by the fire, the gold refined by the furnace, the treasure unearthed by the storm--treasure is found in people, and it is exposed by suffering.

hope to do in the pages that follow is to explain first of all how I, gently brought up in a loving home and diligently instructed by conscientious teachers, should have come to reject so completely what they said. I had some good reasons for refusing some of it. My mistake was to dispense with it all, indiscriminately. I hope to show that one of the things I was schooled in was not, in fact, religion, but a strange and vulnerable counterfeit of it—a counterfeit

Our religion, such as it is, has abandoned the only territory where it could not be challenged, the saving of souls, and has given up troubling our individual consciences. Instead, it has joined in the nationalization of the human conscience, so that a man's moral worth is now measured by the level of taxation he is willing to support, rather than by his faith or even his good works.

If you drive God out the world then you create a howling wilderness." (Copyright: www.changinglives.au.com )

It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.

In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.

A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

Heart-level honesty in the presence of God postures us for change.

The question should not be "What would Jesus do?" but rather, more dangerously, "What would Jesus have me do?" The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

Mystery is not an argument for the existence of God; mystery is an experience of the existence of God.

We trust the text not because it is "true" in the sense of fact, but because in its infinite variety it points to the truth and communicates truth because it comes from the truth which

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, and more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?'...As Mark Twain is said to have remarked, 'It is not what I don't understand in the Bible that troubles me; it is what is perfectly clear that does.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

They believe the "Bible to be God's written revelation to his people," and that "it records in human words what God desires." Their

scripture that Jesus was intending to convey. The Sermon on

Thou shalt do no murder," and the distinction between murder and killing is not a small one. Murder, in the Hebrew language and culture, refers to the premeditated taking of a life outside the womb; killing had to do with the ritual

One issue that was treated gingerly was the acceptance of converts from other faiths into Mennonite churches. Officials of both the Catholic and Protestant churches repeatedly issued warnings forbidding their members to join Mennonite congregations and requested that city councils take steps to prevent this. Evidently, this issue remained a concern, for instances of intermarriage appear repeatedly in civil and church records.

Confession or Brief, Simple Statement of Faith of Those Who are Called Mennonites in Prussia"35

Whenever God gives a miracle child to an old couple, it is a sign that He is beginning something new. An old couple having their first child means a new life. But a virgin who conceives must mark the beginning of a new creation.

Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian

We should all let our inner voices take control from time to time. Let them have their say. We let them take control when we're driving down the motorway sometimes, and they don't do a bad job. Maybe we all need to have a little more faith in ourselves.