Scarred Faith Quotes

“Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

“Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

“They each walked with a limp, because
the lifelong journey of grief was setting in. My mom looked at my dad and said, “Remind me what we believe. What do we believe?”

After a few moments, my dad responded with these words: “The tomb is empty. The tomb is empty.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

“Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

“Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: When Doubts Become Allies of Deep Faith

“It’s much easier to have a Bring a Friend Day at church than it is to have a Be the Church Day. One involves inviting friends to come inside of a church so that the worship minister and teaching pastor can lead them to Jesus. The other involves people taking their own lives into the streets and neighborhoods to become living sacrifices or, as many say now, to become the hands and feet of Jesus.”
― Josh Ross, Scarred Faith: This is a story about how Honesty, Grief, a Cursing Toddler, Risk-Taking, AIDS, Hope, Brokenness, Doubts, and Memphis Ignited Adventurous Faith