Faith Interpretation Quotes

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

There is no one true church.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

The difference between me and most Protestants is most Protestants have no problem at all saying 'The Lord told me this' or 'The Lord told me that,' but they won't believe that the Lord speaks through the pope. You know, at least this guy has some credentials.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say.

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.