Faith Quotes - Page 84

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

Faithfulness in the small things will lead to blessing in the big things.

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.