Jean Ingelow Quotes

Faith is a continuation of reason.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

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

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

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

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

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.