Faith Perspective Quotes

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.