Quotes about Belief

Prayer teaches us faith—and prayer is hard work. It is not a guarantor of getting what we want or a substitute for action. Rather, it undergirds our action with the strength that makes the difference.

I often put it this way: God has put enough into this world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. Faith and reason must always work together in that plausible blend.

The gift of faith is precisely what makes it possible for us to accept that God works in His own way (which is not always our way), in His own time, and for His purpose.

This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.

True faith depends not only on God's power but also on His wisdom.

If the church didn't place true value on a person's questioning, then we were effectively absolving ourselves of any responsibility to that person.

The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth

Faith is not bereft of reason. F

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

we are called to see the gracious hand of a designing God in our lives.