James Wan Quotes

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

Faith is important to me.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

Faith is never identical with piety.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.