Teen Faith Quotes

He's not going to applaud us for becoming famous during our lifetimes; He's going to ask us how we used our spotlight to bring Him glory.
He's not going to ask us how many trophies and awards we received; He's going to ask us how we used our gifts to build the body of Christ. ~ Tessa Emily Hall

I also learned that I must walk by the Spirit, trust God, and not allow my emotions to dictate my actions. Faith cannot exist alongside fear. ~ MaryLu Tyndall

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith. ~ Karen Kingsbury

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. ~ Joseph Conrad

Faith is not won by arguments. Faith is won by an experience of love. ~ Tessa Afshar

He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win. ~ Napoleon Hill

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality. ~ Frank Herbert

Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it. ~ Catherine Doherty

Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart! ~ Nikita Dudani

Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it.
Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith. ~ Earl Lee

How does a mission of outreach and support to immigrant communities square with the repressive politics of the region? In a way, it's the guiding question of this book - how can a nation that professes to be majority Christian become a breeding ground for hate? How can Evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham preach purity for women from the pulpit and still support as president a man who brags about grabbing women by the pussy? How can people who have seen me spend my whole life struggling to live and practice my faith call me godless?

How can a message of peace and unity bring so much pain and loss and destruction?

When I ask what is happening to our churches, what I really want to know is what is happening to our souls? ~ Lyz Lenz

We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death. ~ Martin Luther

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God. ~ Mark Ryan

For eternity, each culture's expression of true faith will complement and inspire all the others. It will be a beautiful dance and a glorious feast of the family of God. ~ Ben Dailey

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard ... the words..they sound alike."
What do you mean?"
Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God. ~ Jodi Picoult

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Never lose your enthusiasm for living.
Keep your faith and passion alive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person. ~ Shannon L. Alder

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has resulted in our "cut flower culture." Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity - the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality. ~ Will Herberg

The disciples of the One resurrected are the oddest of people; we live honestly in the now but yearn for a future so greatly that we take on its future characteristics. In a world of competition, power, and hatred, we live into the future by taking on the future's characteristics of being last, weak, and loving. In this way we provide a world that knows only certainty, immediacy, and domination with a vision of the future encompassed in the faith, hope, and love made possible by the resurrection of Jesus, who has been crucified as our place-sharer. ~ Andrew Root

One might say, I am too young to experience bullying. Believe it or not, bullying happens to kids who are younger than me. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45. ~ Stephen Mangan

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves. ~ Laozi

Sarah felt like the bad girl in an eighties teen flick. The girl with big hair and a tight shirt who seduces the nice girl's boyfriend but loses him in the end, because she's shallow and tacky and no match for a sweet girl with good morals and freshly scrubbed skin. ~ Emily Maguire

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real. ~ Niecy Nash

Bracy, why do I get the feeling that it's only a matter of time before you realize that while you've thought you were running away from God, you were actually running to Him ... and that He's been holding your hand and leading you the whole way there? ~ Nicole Sager

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender. ~ Bill Johnson

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy. ~ Mason Cooley

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind. ~ Karren Renz Sena

With wisdom in your mind,
you can perform great deeds.
With faith in your heart,
you can perform extraordinary deeds.
With love in your soul,
you can perform remarkable deeds.
With God in your life,
you can perform supernatural deeds. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a mixture of experiences - some sweet and some bitter. The Bible abounds in examples and stories of people, and it tells us that without faith we can never please God. We must learn how to trust Him, and trust is developed in private, but it's always shown up in difficult experiences we have in life. So difficulties are an opportunity for us to grow because they reveal our heart condition. ~ Mike Connell

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Prayer, speaking to the Creator. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt ... ~ Blaise Pascal

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends. ~ Harold S. Kushner

Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~ Mitch Albom

Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place bowls back in the fridge and go watch both the episode where Xander is possessed by a demon and the one where Giles regresses to his outrageously sexy teen self and has sex with Buffy's mom, just to get over it. ~ Julie Powell

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, cannot be the real truth. Because this human being exists, in the darkness the light lies hidden, in fear salvation, and in the callousness of one's fellow-men the great Love. ~ Martin Buber

Life is a sacred enduring journey. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is what you do with your doubt. ~ Ben Young

Take it to your Maker - show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave - ask Him how you are to bear the pains He appointed - kneel in His presence, and pray with faith for light in darkness, for strength in piteous weakness, for patience in extreme need. Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not your hour, the waiting waters will stir; in some shape, though not perhaps the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend. ~ Charlotte Bronte

When it comes to loving people, let's not allow it to be something we do on the side. Let's make it a lifestyle. Whether we are at the gas station, picking up groceries, even waiting to get our car repaired, there is always an open opportunity to love someone in need. ~ Jarrid Wilson