Quotes About Perspective

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution - but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had to be wrong or my faith was in trouble.

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Belief creates the actual fact.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

I've lost my faith in science.