I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?
Copy Quote View & ShareThe only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Copy Quote View & ShareChristianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Copy Quote View & ShareFaith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Copy Quote View & ShareThis character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I want people to believe in the character and have faith in the character and kids to grow up wanting to be Superman. Or, God forbid, there's people who are going through hardship and wishing that this character would turn up and save them.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe must confront any situation, however difficult it may be, with courage, faith, serenity, confidence and a lot of mental strength.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.
Copy Quote View & ShareFaith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
Copy Quote View & ShareChristian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
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