All Quotes By Tag: Faith

“Life is this car where you can not just be a passenger and look at the landscape, waiting to reach the destination without having to drive.”

“Don’t be afraid. Just believe.”

“There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we’re all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased… or it means that we’re called to find a way to make our different identities fit together, like the bright shards in assorted colors that make up the stained glass windows of a cathedral. Are we called to sameness, or are we called to oneness?”

“It might seem daunting to a congregation to have to learn about pronouns, or to designate a bathroom gender-neutral, or to have difficult conversations about what it means to affirm LGBTQ+ identities. But transgender people are not a burden for Christianity, or for the church. They come bearing gifts!”

“Have faith, Raphael, I know you remember how.”

“There’s nothing wrong with having a little faith in something the world doesn’t understand yet.”

“And suddenly…there was a wind. No, not a wind. A blur of motion… Bending the steel of their weapons and changing the very course of the might river below. Even before the bystanders freed themselves from the cable car, they know. We all did. We knew… and remembered.”

“If you doubt something, don’t listen to everyone’s opinion, advice; just trust your heart and take the risk. That is the leap of faith gives you everything in life.”

“Many talk of what they can do and what they cannot do, and I fear they miss the vital point. Faith is leaving off the can-ing and cannot-ing, and leaving it all to Christ, for he can do all things, though you can do nothing.”

“Great faith begins with a keen understanding of the greatness of Jesus.”

“Faith is the great equalizer; Faith is the great qualifier. Faith opens doors and creates opportunities for accessing the power of God against all odds.”

“At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life. Thus, the biggest threat to false piety is the honest, sincere human heart.”

“Faith is a floor. If you don’t work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on.”

“When the SUN IS SHINING, and the soft, gentle breezes of LIFE are blowing…We think: ‘THIS WILL LAST FOREVER’—BUT IT NEVER DOES…AND IT NEVER WILL.May WE GLORY in the SUNSHINE OF OUR DAYS…And—May WE STAND STRONG and WALK BY FAITH BOTH DAY AND NIGHT. When the ‘STORM CLOUDS OF LIFE’ BEGIN TO TRY OUR SOULS—WE ‘LOOK UP’ TO OUR CREATOR—who GIVES to Each of US STRENGTH for each day’s JOURNEY….HE WILL—IF WE WILL ONLY ALLOW HIM TO DO SO….AS WE PRESS ON.”

“At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life”