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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

Writer Michael Novak says that doubt is not so much a dividing line that separates people into different camps, as it is a razor’s edge that runs through every soul. Many believers tend to think doubt...

In her book Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home , Jen Pollock Michel reflects on the nature of home in a transient age. In this short excerpt, Michel focuses on etymology of home in v...

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

We are what we believe we are.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using i...

Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

I remember once near Interlaken waiting for days to see the Jungfrau which was hidden in mists. People told me it was there, and I should have been a fool to doubt their word, for those who told me li...

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.

Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

One of the most quotable movies of all time was released in 1994. It featured a rising comedic genius from Canada, paired with another highly successful actor, as well as a considerable ensemble cast ...

Faith, thankfully, does not preclude doubt. It consists of staking your life on the rumor of grace.

Quite often the absence of immediate success is the mark of a genuine call., My Creator, My friend.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...

A ship went down in a storm, and only one man survived. He was fortunate enough to land on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. With just a few items in his pocket, he was able to build a small...

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because i...

We can rest knowing the Lord’s presence transcends what we feel. Just like the flow of the air, he is moving even if his movements cannot be perceived. And where God is not just felt but known, faith ...

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Faith is a voluntary anticipation.

The man of pseudo-faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get in a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself w...

Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. . . . We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiah...

A living faith is that which pours itself out in works.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.