Christian Faith Quotes

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called the Mosaic account of the creation, the story of Eve and the apple, and the counterpart of that story, the death of the Son of God, that to believe otherwise, that is, to believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the christian system of faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air. The two beliefs can not be held together in the same mind; and he who thinks that be believes both, has thought but little of either.

...And, on the other hand, are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation had an Eve, an apple, a serpent, and a redeemer? In this case, the person who is irreverently called the Son of God, and sometimes God himself, would have nothing else to do than to travel from world to world, in an endless succession of death, with scarcely a momentary interval of life.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“Just make sure you don't settle for surviving when God called you to thrive.”
― N.Y. Dunlap, Every Voice Heard: Three Novellas About Church Hurt and Abuse

“At the moment, you are hopeless and you have wandered away from God, there is hope. Jesus is your hope to lead you back home to Him. You need Jesus to find your way back; you cannot find your way on your own. God always comes for His beloved people on His given time, when they are up and down. Even when you are leveled to the ground, God will make a way for you. Despite the fact that in the way of life’s spiritual warfare, comes at us from every angle, we are to keep moving on our productivity paths, doing God’s will.”
― Shareka Smith

“It is with this that I present to you the template of fatherhood, God himself, a perfect Good Shepherd. It’s a high bar, I know, but we must not let that scare us from looking to him as our example to follow.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“depressed like you ruined everything God had planned for you? This is not the end!
Just like the artists who spent consistent time with their creations in order for them to become masterpieces, we get this opportunity with God. He is eager to continue molding, shaping, and creating us to become the masterpieces he had in mind from the beginning. Even though he is eager, we must decide to meet with him to let him do his work. Spending consistent time with the Lord is the way to let him continue his work with us.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“God sees you. God hears you. God hasn't forgotten you.”
― Karen Brough, Take a Breath with Him Companion Guidebook - Experiencing God When You're Getting Back On Your Feet

“And sometimes, God asks us to walk through a trial for someone else's sake.”
― D.T. Powell, Every Voice Heard: Three Novellas About Church Hurt and Abuse

“The shape of true love isn’t a diamond. It’s a cross.”
― John Piper

“My God, this is staggering, Woah! Immense. This epiphany quivers me as I write. How powerful, nonpareil, & superordinary is your Word. The BEATITUDES for instance, is a saintly archetype of direct investment, --seed planting & a sure-way harvest.

May I liken it a bit to a spiritual trading --one in which, to get this-- you do this. Simple, practical & yet so effective. The only ingredient required for this is aBsOluTe OBEDIENCE.

Meanwhile, all of humanity-- everyone actively, passively, knowingly or otherwise is a trader at this heavenly market of life. --©Bright Heaven's”
― Bright Heaven's

“BEATITUDES

My God, this is staggering, Woah! Immense. This epiphany quivers me as I write. How powerful, nonpareil, & superordinary is your Word. The BEATITUDES for instance, is a saintly archetype of direct investment, --seed planting & a sure-way harvest.

May I liken it a bit to a spiritual trading --one in which, to get this-- you do this. Simple, practical & yet so effective. The only ingredient required for this is aBsOluTe OBEDIENCE.

Meanwhile, all of humanity-- everyone actively, passively, knowingly or otherwise is a trader at this heavenly market of life. --©Bright Heaven's”
― Bright Heaven's

“These are trying times,' Samuel Piper of the 158th Pennsylvania wrote to his wife, 'and we should all humble ourselves and try to live as we should and as we will wish we should have done when we come to die. We should live always with God before our eyes and endeavor to serve him continually. At best our days are few and evil, and we should live agreeable in this world so that we may be better prepared to enjoy our heavenly home above; a few days, weeks, months or years at farthest we will be called upon to leave our earthly home and if we live right the days allotted to us here below the change will be a good one. If not it will certainly be a very bad one.”
― Joshua Zeitz, Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation

“This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” proclaims connectedness, equality, and mutuality, not dominance or a hierarchy of power.”
― Ngina Otiende, Courage: Reflections and Liberation For the Hurting Soul

“The strength of a woman is not in how well
she adapts to a one-sided marriage
or endures a chronically immature connection.”
― Ngina Otiende, Courage: Reflections and Liberation For the Hurting Soul

“The rising greatness of our country is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism, which with me, is but another name for vice and depravity....Amongst other strange things said of me,...I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number, and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of tory, because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics.' -- PATRICK HENRY, Letter to his daughter Elizabeth Aylett, August 20, 1796.”
― Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

“When was the last time she had trusted God, really trusted Him, without reservations, without a backup plan or a safety net?”
― Kara Isaac, Then There Was You

“Each scar has a story and a testimony.”
― Ron Acosta, Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir

“The 144,000 have the patience of the saints; they keep the commandments of God, and they also have the faith of Jesus. For them the doors of heaven will swing wide open. They enter as those who have a right to the tree of life, and with holy boldness they go with Jesus even into the presence of God. In this group God completes the demonstration of His power to save. The vilest sinners can be made fit companions for the saints in light. If these persons chosen from the last and weakest generation can endure the test given them, there is no excuse for the fall of Adam. He, in the fullness of strength, failed in the smallest test; these, in all the weakness of humanity, pass a test infinitely greater. Hence, God cannot be accused of requiring more of Adam than he could do.
God is now looking for candidates for immortality. He is looking for men and women to make up the number required in the last demonstration. He wants converted, sanctified, dedicated people, such as will not boast of their attainments, but who in humility will follow in the Master's footsteps, exercise the faith He did, have the patience needed to finish the work, and at last enter with Him through the gates into the city.”
― M.L. Andreasen, Book of Hebrews, The

“Pain does not make sense until we make it make sense. We have the power to define our life experiences. Just because a circumstance was traumatic and agonising doesn’t mean it must leave you incapacitated forever.”
― Manuela Izunwa

“If Jesus is a revelation of the Father’s nature, then we know something new about God that humanity didn’t always know. God is not into coercion. God draws. God persuades. God invites. Those walking the other-centered, co-suffering way of Jesus are invited to this same commitment.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“On the steps of Pilate’s palace, two men stood: One, a peaceful teacher who invited others to a new life marked by other-centered, co-suffering love—the other, a likely revolutionary who attempted to bring freedom through violence. The crowd was invited to choose. At that moment, and in so many moments since, the crowd picked the path of expediency and the long-standing human dream of peace through retributive violence. The way of Jesus challenges us to choose the harder path.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Even in the darkest places of pain, God is present. Even in our most isolating, humiliating experiences, God is with us. If God is with us in our painful powerlessness, then surely God is with the others. All the others. The ones we would rather not look in the eye. The ones we dismiss as the inevitable casualties of maintaining a society that is comfortable for us. The ones we think had it coming. The ones that power crushes.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“It’s one thing to see the cross as God’s tragic sacrifice to benefit me eternally. It’s an entirely different thing to see the cross as God standing with all of humanity and inviting us to do the same.”
― Marc Alan Schelske, Walking Otherward: Forty Meditations on Following Jesus’ Path of Other-centered, Co-suffering Love

“Just as science without faith is landlocked, faith without science floats on the surface.”
― Rachel G. Jordan, If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science

“There are two ways suffering can change you. The first is by breaking you down, leaving you afraid, paranoid, and void of hope. The other is by breaking you open, leaving you with a wider heart, and expanding your capacity for love. Jesus, in his suffering, was broken open for us. When we share in Christ’s sufferings, we too are broken open and able to love others more than we could before.

Because of the suffering you have endured in the past, you are able to persevere and endure even more suffering in the future. Each season of suffering prepares you for the next one. As you persevere in suffering, you become more resilient in the face of trials.”
― Ian Harber, Walking Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith

“In submitting to suffering, Jesus absorbs and transforms it into our salvation. Hanging on the cross, the sky went black, and Jesus absorbed the darkness of the world into his body and spirit. Overtaken by it, he lay in the grave for three days. On Easter morning, he was raised in victory over death, defeating the darkness that overtook him on the cross with the light of life.

This is what it means to persevere. While suffering is the result of the evil and brokenness of the world, we, like Christ, absorb the darkness of suffering into our bodies, transform it, and release it back into the world as light. We absorb hate and release it back into the world as love. We absorb lies and release them back into the world as truth. We absorb death and release it back into the world as life. We don’t see ourselves as simply victims of suffering but as agents of transformation who mock death and scorn shame, knowing that God’s victorious rule and reign over all evil will be made manifest through our perseverance.”
― Ian Harber, Walking Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith

“Feeling depressed like you ruined everything God had planned for you? This is not the end! Just like the artists who spent consistent time with their creations in order for them to become masterpieces, we get this opportunity with God. He is eager to continue molding, shaping, and creating us to become the masterpieces he had in mind from the beginning. Even though he is eager, we must decide to meet with him to let him do his work. Spending consistent time with the Lord is the way to let him continue his work with us.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“The same applies to us. The gifts and talents we have from God are given for what he has in mind for us. Do not pick up a body suit of armor and sword when God built you to fight with the sling and stones.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“Interestingly, the most important piece of advice I would give to any dad is also the most basic. Here it is: your kids are not yours. Your children are God’s children.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy

“If I do not believe, but follow anyway, does that not mock the Most High and defeat his will?"
"On the contrary, my friend. To follow without seeing the end—in unbelief as you say—is really the highest form of trust.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Warlords of Nin