faith and uncertainty Quotes

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?

I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.