Faith Quotes

"In the absence of faith, we govern by tendencies."

"I don't believe in God, I know God."

"What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket."

"I am interested in the lines of spiritual choice and will so that I can find ground to stand on in these books."

"The Christian doesn't have to be neurotic but he is asked to take up his cross."

"I imagine the resurrection of the body to be important if we are right now eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ."

"My subject in fiction is the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it."

"A kind of Christianity without Christ is getting these days to be the favorite of quite a few."

"The novelist is looking for the pattern of grace in the world and for him the most obvious pattern is evil."

"Belief, in the full religious sense, is the experience of ultimate purpose."

"Redemption does not come cheaply."

"The novelist who denies the possibility of redemption is denying the possibility of meaning."

"No God comes."

"Faith is a wager against entropy."

"Faith moves mountains."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

"We are all pilgrims seeking something we cannot quite name."

"Faith is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today."

"Faith is not about certainty; it is about commitment despite uncertainty and doubt."

"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it."

"A prayer is a wish for something before you know it will happen."

"God is not the end of wisdom."

"She's up there, though. She's waiting on us."

"When a man's conscience is bothered, there's generally a reason for it."

"One does not lose faith. Sometimes faith loses us."

"We are all God's children trying to find our way home"

"Faith is not absence of doubt, but trust despite it"

"The novelist with Christian concerns will find in the vision of the Christian faith something which will be a novel in itself."

"If there were no Redemption, life would be no better than a dog's life."

"The fact of the matter is that salvation is a hard nut to crack."