Quotes About Faith

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

Grace can and does have a history.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

One must overcome history by dogma.