Quotes About Faith

It was a relief to decide you didn't have to decide. It was a relief to have faith in immutability, a relief to lose faith in your ability to change something, even when it was something you'd wish you could change. It was a relief to be imposed on intractably. Acceptance, if not brave, was at least a relief. That was the trick of it.

it is good to do justice because God will kill you and your family whether you do justice or not.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

Ludzie! ka?dy z was móg?by, samotny, wi?ziony, My?l? i wiar? zwala? i pod?wiga? trony.

Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?

Kto nie dotkn?? ziemi ni razu, Ten nigdy nie mo?e by? w niebie.

Bo?e! Co? mi rozkaza? spe?ni? kielich ?ycia I zbyt wielki, zbyt gorzki da?e? mi do picia, Je?li wzgl?dów twojego mi?osierdzia godna Cierpliwo??, z któr? gorycz wychyli?em do dna, Jedynej, lecz najwi?kszej ?miem ??da? nagrody: Pob?ogos?aw wnukowi – niechaj umrze m?ody!

Bo s?uchajmy i zwa?my u siebie, ?e wed?ug bo?ego rozkazu: Kto za ?ycia cho? raz by? w niebie, Ten po ?mierci nie trafi od razu.

Czucie i wiara silniej mówi do mnie Ni? m?drca szkie?ko i oko.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he was about to get shot.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

You've got mountains of your own, I'll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You've got a better grip than you realize.

As I'm so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I'll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. Day after day this is what Jesus did. It is called trust. He calls us: 'Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly" (Matthew 11:30, MSG)

we keep company with Jesus by making space for him through a spiritual discipline. Our part is to offer ourselves lovingly and obediently to God. God then works within us doing what he alone can do. Our desires don't obligate the holy One. God is free to come to us in spiritual disciplines as he wills, not as we demand. But unless we open ourselves to him through spiritual practices, we will miss his coming altogether.

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

The spiritual journey is a marathon of seasons. Sometimes you can hold your own. Sometimes your side aches, you're hot and you can't get your breath. Spiritual disciplines are intentional ways to keep moving through the seasons. They aren't magical means to an effortless race. The disciplines simply provide us with exercises that keep us open to God and aware of the limits of our endurance.

They simply put us in a place where we can begin to notice God and respond to his word to us.