Quotes About Faith

William concluded that Germany had never lost faith in the security of the Enigma machine. They thought Enigma was unbreakable all the way to the end. He was proud to learn that Nazi codebreakers had never managed to defeat America's best cipher machine, the SIGABA, which he had invented with Frank Rowlett.

It won't be as easy, but lots of things that are worth doing aren't easy. It just takes commitment, discipline, and, most important, faith that it's all going to work out.

Cuando no tienes claro en lo que crees, todo deriva en una controversia. Todo es discutible. Por el contrario, cuando tienes las ideas claras, las decisiones son fáciles.

But the faith of her homeworld of Gatalenta taught that no one who reached salvation arrived there alone--they brought along all those whose love and compassion had helped deliver them.

They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Because in reality, God knows our hearts better than we do and wants to bless us with a romance full of life-long memories.

The self-assured Mr. White had made a single big bet and kissed one frog expecting it to turn into a prince, but had forgotten the rule of frogs and princes. You need to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince!

Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, "the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.

Faith even the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, but many of us prefer the less spectacular but safer results that come from operating in our own strength.... Do we really believe that our prayers to an invisible God can and will change the hard hearts of tyrants, break down oppressive social and religious systems, and deliver fullness of life to those who suffer in abject hopelessness. F.B. Meyer wrote, 'You do not test the resources of God until you attempt the impossible.

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Putting it simply, my brother had a hotline to Heaven. When he dropped a contact lens on the bathroom floor, instead of crawling on hands and knees, anxious to find it, he just closed his eyes, prayed for a minute, then looked down and it would be there. Nothing was his battle. Any struggle, no matter the size, belonged to his Friend. Sinclair knew the power of Yahushua.

There's just something irresistible about hope.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Any belief that cannot be defended by logic, proof or evidence is protected by hurt feelings and if needed expressed by violence.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.

Even though how long the light may last, the sun will always rise up above you

Raccontare è quasi sempre un regalo, compreso quando porta e inietta veleno il racconto è anche un vincolo e un concedere fiducia e rara è la fiducia che prima o poi non si tradisca, raro il vincolo che non si aggrovigli o non si annodi, e perciò finisca per stringere e si debba tirare di coltello e di lama per reciderlo.

La crueldad es contagiosa. El odio es contagioso. La fe es contagiosa… Se convierte en fanatismo a la velocidad del rayo… —Ahora el tono era mitad asertivo, mitad rememorativo—. Por eso encierran tanto peligro, por eso son difíciles de parar. Cuando uno quiere percatarse, ya se han propagado como un incendio en el bosque

La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.

No hay nada mejor que creer que se ha perdido la voluntad, que está uno a merced del oleaje y del vaivén, que puede mecerse y abandonarse; o sí, todavía es mejor creer que la voluntad se ha entregado a otro, a quien ahora corresponderá decidir qué va a pasar.

Besides, faith is a fickle, fragile thing: it stumbles, recovers, grows stronger, cracks. And is lost. Belief can never be trusted.