Quotes About Faith

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

I'm always a bit suspicious of the sort of person who argues by saying 'What would Jesus have said?' They usually mean that they are quite sure Jesus would have agreed with them.

The truth sustains me.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

Our people's faith is strong and sustains them even in times of challenge.

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

I felt like I was growing up with two different churches, in a sense. And that's always stayed with me - not just the religion of it - but the day-to-day understanding that these beliefs, that faith itself, is something that I need as something to sustain me.

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me - held me up, carried me through.

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.