Quotes About Faith

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

All the time, even before we had mainstreamed, it was like we were never really Christians because of the way we looked. Or, you know, we were never Christian enough, or we're too Christian at times. You can't please people.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

The only person I worry about pleasing is God, my husband, my family, and myself.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.

I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.

There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.