Quotes about Belief

Thus the teaching of Jesus attests to the possibility of God that the world has long since taken to be impossible. That is what is wonderful about his teaching.

The old limits of the possible have been exposed as fraudulent inventions designed to keep the powerless in their places. Jesus violates such invented limitations and opens the world to the impossible. He ends that defiant declaration with the admonition: "And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me" (v. 23).

paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.

It is rather the conviction that God will not quit until God has arrived at God's good intention.

If one is linked to a flat, one-dimensional faith, then this verse is a bitter loss of faith . But if we think in terms of obedience on its way to risky imagination, then this verse is an opening for new faith beyond the conventions and routines that secure but do not reckon with God's awefulness .

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

John 11:43—44: "And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Our faith teaches us that when our time on earth is over, God will call us home no matter what. We just need to accept His will and move on with life.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Baptism is faith in action.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.