Quotes about Belief

Good religion keeps God free for people and keeps people free for God. You cannot improve on that.

For all who have tried to know Jesus without Christ, many of the core church teachings offered a disembodied Christ without any truly human Jesus, which was the norm for centuries in doctrine and in art. Art is the giveaway of what people really believe at any one time.

Jesus is not telling us to believe unbelievable things, as if that would somehow please God. He is much more saying to us, "Try this," and you will see for yourself that it is true. But that initial trying is always a leap of faith into some kind of action or practice.

There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.

I believe, necessary for both joy and truth in this world.

I finally had to be either Roman or catholic, and I continue to choose the catholic end of that spectrum.

God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.

My personal belief is that Jesus's own human mind knew his full divine identity only after his resurrection. He had to live his life with the same faith that we must live, and also "grow in wisdom, age, and grace" (Luke 2:40), just as we do.

Mutual perfect faith would be heaven!

Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

You do not have to see the sun to know that it is still shining.

Faith at its essential core is accepting that we are accepted!