Quotes about Faith
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
— Harold S. Kushner
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
— Harold S. Kushner
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
— Helen Keller
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
— Henri Nouwen
The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
— Henri Nouwen
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
— Henri Nouwen
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
— Henri Nouwen
It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
— Henri Nouwen
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.
— Henri Nouwen
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
— Henri Nouwen
You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him
— Henry B. Eyring