University students may experience challenges and difficulties in their academic pursuits. Given the stressful situation, students need to find coping strategies. This qualitative study, using a purposive sampling technique, documents the strategies employed by university students to cope with life’s issues. It was attended by 26 respondents from the School of Theology at a private university in West Indonesia. The respondents answered open-ended questions with exploratory descriptives. The study reveals the significance of coping through religious beliefs, faith, and trust in God. Further, it reveals that despite the issues with finances, fervent prayer and belief in God are the emerging themes as coping strategies. This study concludes that religious coping in difficult times assists in the survival of theology students by lessening their stress. Further study can be done on whether religious coping may also be applied to students from other departments.