Quotes on Faith

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Have faith in yourself; faith in the infinite

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.