Faith Paradox Quotes

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.