Quotes About Faith

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.