Quotes About Belief

By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

I can't,' but it was acceptance now. 'I can't,' whispered Dame Catherine, 'so You must.

I have come to believe that nothing is ever wasted; out of mistakes or through mistakes, something quite worthwhile can come, in my case the see of another novel.

believes in God the way he believes in politicians-he knows He exists but doesn't count on Him for anything.

He can't quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old man's deep voice like in the pickup truck ads on TV coming out of the ball of light dictating the way everything in Eden is supposed to work.

I could no longer believe even in life. Which meant that I had come to be the reverse, the opposite of a Christian. For me, now, the only reality is death.

The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.

Biology doesn't matter, the Christians argued, because this body we live in is not ultimately real; history doesn't matter, they said, because God's time is different and superior to man's anyhow; and forget cause and effect, forget what you've been told about the physical world, because there is heaven and there is hell and there is this green earth in between, and you are always alive in one of the three places.

It's funny about religion, whether it's the religion of white Rasta kids or even my own mom it's usually got some other point than thanks and praise. For the people doing the thanking and praising, I mean.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.

Intellectual questions and doubts naturally arise when we read Bible stories because to our rational minds they often seem so utterly unbelievable. Perhaps we need a new frame of reference. When we open the Bible we should enter its pages with an attitude of Bring it on! Only then will we see the power of this incredible book.

As God's lawyer I was a dead failure; as God's witness I was a success.

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.

regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring.

If one person tells a lie and ten people hear it and pass it on, does it make it true?

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

They'll give you the ein hora—the evil eye.

This too was hospital practice. To have congratulated her before the afterbirth was out and whole might bring bad luck.

It's not only true that my life is Christ's, but my life is Christ.

The most important part of living realistically is to hold a true view of God. God is ultimate reality. He's the greatest factor in all that's real. When we let the truth about Him nourish us and remold our minds, this revolutionizes our lives.

How much better to fill today with the three great basics of Christian living — faith, hope, and love. All are rooted in God.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?