Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs, but to teach my faith to my children and to share it with anyone who will listen - that is my right, too.
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
