Quotes About Faith

As many serve the Virgin as serve God.

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

Scripture is something God had 'let be,' and so it is at once God's creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.