Quotes about Belief

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.

Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death. Until that day arrives, the case against God must rely on incomplete evidence. We cannot really reconcile our pain-wracked world with a loving God because what we experience now is not the same as what God intends. Jesus himself prayed that God's will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, a prayer that will not be fully answered until evil and suffering are finally defeated.

According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

we persevere because we believe rewards will come.

Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

History is a test of faith, and the correct response to that test is persistent prayer.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?