All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“I had never told Bonnie this, but I always respected her faith more than my own. Her faith was a conscious decision, a hard-earned achievement, constantly evolving to deal with her family’s agnosticism and her own bisexuality. I wore my own faith like the shirt I fell asleep in because I was too lazy to change.”

“You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.”

“She was always on guard against false claims that religious faith was psychologically unhealthy. She was religious, her family and friends were religious, and they were okay. They were more than okay. They were confident, compassionate, productive people–all this while realizing that when they wanted to walk across a room, they didn’t place one foot in front of the other unless God animated them to do so.”

“Hope is not some flimsy belief that things might somehow work out. Rather, hope is a belief in a God who’s already worked it out.”

“Drawing identity from any area other than the source of life is a spiritual death sentence, and worse, it’s contagious, because it gives birth to tribalism. However, when we return to our central identity of image-bearers designed to receive love from and reflect love to others, we are naturally invited to shed all of the unloving, fear-based tribal behaviors that come from loyalty to the label.”

“I know why this is Lucy’s favorite song. Lucy believes in a world that’s fair. As she recites, clear and crisp, I realize I believe in that world, too. I just don’t believe in a god who will create it for us. I think we’ll have to do it on our own.”

“I use the language of worship rather than belief because I am never sure if I believe in God. I do not trust myself enough to take what I believe seriously. But I do worship God, and I do so with joy. (Huffpost Blog, “The Surprise of Being a Christian”)”

“Let us all be color blind. Close your eyes and listen to the voice. You see no color, no race, no nationality, just the voice of a person. That’s how God see us.”

“I believe in love. I believe in the love Lucy shows me, the kind I’ll try hard to give back to her in full. I believe in things I can’t put into words, but things I know to be true. I believe in us. I believe in this. Amen.”

“Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth!”

“Imani ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana na hupeleka watu kwenye ukweli. Kuamini hupotosha, na ni nia ya kudharau kinachoweza kujulikana.”

“Peter’s fingers curled around the edge of the couch cushion. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that no one can find God for someone else. They can only find Him for themselves. My biggest hope is that you do find Him. But you have to do it for you. Not for me. Not for anything we might have.”

“As long as we are caving in to the vicious cycle of always trying harder in hopes that one day we won’t feel like such an outsider, we are not being obedient to the scriptural principle of living at peace wit ourselves. Instead, we’re living in turmoil, and that’s not the life Jesus invites us to live. We are invited to live at peace.At peace with our neighbors.At peace with our enemies.At peace with God. At peace with ourselves. And that critical last part means we must be affirming–and not just to others who are different. We need to affirm that place inside us that desperately wants to hear that we are good, that we are beautiful, and that the ways in which we are different are gifts to be celebrated.”

“Being thankful reminds us that if it’s broken it’s an opportunity.”

“Being alert is not to vigilantly stand on tip-toe in order to scan some distant horizon out of the fear of some approaching enemy. Quite the opposite. It is falling to our knees knowing that God is already out on that horizon and that He thwarted the enemy long before they ever reached it.”