Quotes About Faith

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

The impotence of God is infinite.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.