Quotes About Faith

The history of the human race doesn't make happy reading, does it? I've seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I've seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we'd have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.

Religion asks why. Science asks how.

Las personas que tenían una profunda fe religiosa eran afortunadas; podían abdicar todas sus responsabilidades en Dios.

She wished, sometimes, that she could trust God, and surrender all her concerns to Him. How much simpler that would make everything.

Dieu et mon droit».

Faith hears the truth of the gospel, believes it and then acts upon it.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

La incapacidad de relativizar el sentido común cuando abordamos la Biblia tiene efectos perniciosos en la teología y, por ende, en la vida eclesial y en la evangelización.

Los pactos son promesas, y el Dios verdadero se manifiesta, o se nombra, mediante su capacidad de cumplir sus promesas. Toda la cuestión del nombre de Dios, como opuesto a cualquier otra fuerza espiritual, es lo que prácticamente forja el guión de la Biblia. Dado que las promesas tienen que ver con el futuro, la Biblia es escatológica por obligación. De esta manera, la Biblia aborda el tiempo de un modo que nos permite vivir con esperanza, fe y amor en medio de la historia.

El evangelio, y la experiencia que fluye de él, deben conservar su prioridad, porque si no es así no tendremos nada con lo que evaluar la validez de la experiencia.

No puede existir una versión auténtica del cristianismo sin una entidad lingüística conocida como la palabra de Dios.

El pacto con Abraham unió a una familia con el Señor; el pacto por medio de Moisés unió a una nación con Él; el pacto con David unió a un reino con Él; el pacto de Jesús une su pueblo con Él.

El evangelio no solo es un suceso; es una palabra fija, una verdad que permanece, una palabra fundamental para la vida, que contiene la promesa de las cosas venideras.

No podemos eludir las palabras que hablan de Él para descubrir su voluntad de una forma más segura o más clara.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.