Oswald Chambers Quotes

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

Well, I can't figure out God.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

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