Church Quote by John Calvin Download Open image “Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Faith Religion Submit
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Faith is accepting that you may not understand everything, but knowing that God will direct you to what He wants for your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient. — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand. — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image