Faith Definition Quotes

You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a taco.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.