Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

The acknowledgement of the Judeo Christian God is not religion.

The men of moral and religious earnestness were bent on some measure of fresh reform. A spirit was abroad which could not be put down, and which would not be quiet. The old idea of an authoritative Church was outgrown, and yet no religious system had come in its place which provided for a free personal approach to God Himself.

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices.

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.