Faith Quotes - Page 23

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Have faith in your imaginel act.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

You could ask yourself, 'How did God Bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but which you will then know were a touch of God's hand in your life.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.