All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship”

“True love asks no questions, makes no reservations, but puts itself unconditionally into the hands of the loved one.”

“Answers based in truth are the foundation of wisdom.”

“You just don’t have faith!” Frank repeated.”Well I hope I never get it! It’s like being hit by a hammer in the head!”

“Now listen. Faith is like oxygen. It keeps you afloat at all times. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you don’t. but when you do need it you better be practiced at having faith, otherwise it won’t work. That’s why the missionaries built all the churches. Before we got those churches we weren’t practicing enough. That’s what prayers are for—practice, children. Practice.”

“Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?”

“To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience … the quality of a Christian’s experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God’s truth.”

“Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason.”

“Our greatest challenge today…is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.”

“Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.”

“Promise has faith as premise. Only men of faith can promise.”

“God blesses to the degree in which you believe.”

“…he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.”

“Sin embargo, conocí a muchos internados que supieron ser fieles a su dignidad humana hasta el mismo fin. Los nazis lograron degradarlos físicamente, pero no fueron capaces de rebajarlos moralmente.Gracias a estos pocos, no he perdido totalmente mi fe en la humanidad. Si en la misma jungla de Birkenau no todos fueron necesariamente inhumanos con sus hermanos hombres, indudablemente hay todavía esperanzas.Esta esperanza es la que me hace vivir.”

“It seems to me some people just go around lookin’ to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.”