Quotes About Belief

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

De todos modos, ese Dios al que yo rezaba y al que escribía cartas es un hombre. Y como todos los hombres, es desconsiderado, olvidadizo e indiferente.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. I am speaking here of man's mind. The men both worshiped and feared the women.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

Mientras pueda decir D-i-o-s, sabré que hay alguien conmigo.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone — a roofleaf or Christ — but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

When I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.

Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Has encontrado a Dios alguna vez en la iglesia? Yo, nunca. Solo a un puñado de gente que espera que se les manifieste. Si alguna vez he encontrado a Dios en la iglesia es porque ya lo llevaba conmigo. Y lo mismo le pasa a los demás. La gente va a la iglesia a compartir a Dios, o a buscarlo.

Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Whatever had made her think she knew what love was or was not?

God didn't put me on this street to provide disability awareness training to the likes of them. In fact, no god put anyone anywhere for any reason, if you want to know.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust." She leaned forward. "Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. The second requires proof, whether it be upfront or covert." Awkwardly, she patted my hand. "His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.

the weight of evidence 'cannot convince those who do not wish to believe

Was I right? she asked him. Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.

God could perform miracles, and she was praying as hard as she could for one.

In this world, you must be one thing or the other; you cannot pick and choose each tenet of your faith.

God did not say, You will not be troubled, you will not be belabored, you will not be afflicted; but He said, You will not be overcome.