Quotes about Belief

If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?

God is "the Truth." The Bible is the "truth about the Truth." Theology is the "truth about the truth about the Truth." Christian people live in these many truths about the Truth, and, because of them, have not "the Truth." Hungry, beaten, and drugged, we had forgotten theology and the Bible. We had forgotten the "truths about the Truth," therefore we lived in "the Truth.

Bible verses remain true, even if the devil quotes them.

Credo quia impossibile

It is a miracle, with no logical explanation, that even amid the fierce anti-Semitism of Hitler's oppression, there were Germans who believed with all their hearts in the crucified Jew as their Savior.

Faith in God is the sole answer to the mystery of evil.

Hammer away, ye hostile bands. Your hammers break; God's anvil stands.

The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe. When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil that is in man.

People are so inoculated in childhood with small doses of Christianity that they seldom catch the real thing.

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth.

So at last when I believed Christianity was dead, I said, "Even so, I will believe in it, and I will weep at its tomb until it rises again, as it surely will.

reminded him of the great scientists who have been Christians—from Newton and Kepler to Pavlov and the discoverer of anaesthetics, Sir James Simpson. Luca said, "They conformed to the conventions of the time." I said, "Do you know the declaration of Louis Pasteur, who discovered microbes and vaccination? 'Je crois comme une charbonnière le plus que je progresse en science.