Quotes about Belief

When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,

her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.