Faith Limits Quotes

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?

Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

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.

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.