Quotes about Belief

The line in this song that slayed me the first time I heard it, and slays me every time I hear it, is 'I cannot explain the way that You came to love me, except to say that nothing is beyond You.

Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.

He had let go of the need to earn God's love

But surely it was not God's will to give us a child with handicaps. God didn't do this, right?" "It's a mystery, Daddy. You won't be able to understand it all till you get here and see all of the rooms and one-inch pictures. But this you can trust: God is always good.

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

The Jews remain the chosen people of God. The Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Son of God is an affirmation of faith that Christians must respect.

The Gospel, expressing Jewish understanding and hope, was a Jewish invention.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.