Quotes on Faith

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ."

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!