Faith Quotes

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

"The South is Christ-haunted but religiously impoverished."

"The unbelief of others must not interfere with my own deepening faith."

"Most of us come to the Church by a humiliating route."

"The Christian mind is not the private mind and it is not the mind of the moment."

"I am not only a writer but a believer first."

"One of the difficulties of the modern world is that spiritual reality has lost its tangibility."

"I regard myself as a very religious writer and a very political writer."

"If you're going to write about grace, you must understand how terrible grace really is."

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow."

"Faith is belief in what we cannot yet see."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke words."

"The Lord never intended for us to pay the way we do."

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another."

"The facts just don't matter. Belief is all that counts."

"A man who believes in himself will do anything that is humanly possible."

"I would argue that the next Buddha will not take the form of a person. The next Buddha may be a committee."

"Fear is the absence of faith."

"One's potential is limitless if one believes it is."

"Faith is believing in something you cannot see."

"Faith gives us hope when all else fails."

"The heart knows things the mind cannot comprehend."

"To be a Jew is to accept an enormous burden."

"There is no reason to expect that because we are Christians God will make us feel good."

"The Christian writer is not so much divorced from the world as he is grafted into it."

"Whatever the narrative contents, the form of the story will always be the action of grace."

"A God you fully understand is no God at all."

"The operation of the Church is entirely set for the sinner; which creates no little confusion among the good."

"I think that what the Church has to offer the world is either everything or nothing."

"I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace."