Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:7
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
— Abraham Lincoln
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
— Thomas Merton
Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
— J. Vernon McGee
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.
— Martin Luther
If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I'm taking a stand-and I hope others will-to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ.
— Michael Smith
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
— Anonymous
Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.
— Martin Luther
To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.
— Martin Luther
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
— John Owen