faith evaluation Quotes

I would say I am a mediocre Christian.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can't you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you - unless you actually fail the test?

Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.