Quotes about Belief

Andy Rooney, the late commentator on the 60 Minutes television show, once said, "I've decided I'm against abortion. I think it's murder. But I have a dilemma in that I much prefer the pro-choice to the pro-life people. I'd much rather eat dinner with a group of the former.

I can never figure out how to have a friendly conversation with someone when my main point is that they are going to Hell.

The worst moment for the atheist is

First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution

My anger about pain has melted mostly for one reason: I have come to know God. He has given me joy and love and happiness and goodness. They have come in unexpected flashes, in the midst of my confused, imperfect world, but they have been enough to convince me that my God is worthy of trust. Knowing him is worth all enduring.

if we do not believe that, and if our Christian hope, tempered by sophistication, does not allow us to offer that truth to a dying, convulsing world then we are indeed, as the apostle Paul said, of all men most miserable.

Unless we can grasp our own beliefs as truly good news, we cannot easily communicate them to a thirsty world.

A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.

positioned myself. I once described the people I tend to hear from as "borderlanders," those caught in a no-person's-land between faith and disbelief. Some approach the church cautiously, attracted to Jesus but turned off by his followers. Some have fled the church due to bad experiences, yet still yearn for the consolation they felt there. I've spent time in the borderlands myself and want to honor those wandering on the edges, the misfits.

I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.

I leave in God's hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.

Our faith rests not just on Jesus' example but on his resurrection.