Quotes About Faith

Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

quoting Elizabeth I. Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32

I know that human triumph is never fully redemptive.

When God says no to your harmless desires, it's time to get another God.

Hope follows on the heels of Faith. And the white-winged goddess—which is Hope—did not leave her, but prompted her to many little surreptitious acts of preparation in the event of the miracle coming to pass.

Religion, loyalty, everything would give way if only you cared.

I had still wanted a baby - two, actually - and I still trusted the authenticity of my earlier yearning

Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...

Dear God, thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

So many miracles have not yet happened.

Bah, cynics, said Dr. Meescham. Cynics are people who are afraid to believe.

But she couldn't help it. She did hope. She was hoping. She had been hoping all along.

The world is dark, and light is precious.

Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the possibility of happy endings?

All things are possible. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, the miraculous happened every day. Or every other day. Or every third day. Actually, sometimes it did not happen at all, even on the third day. But still, we expected it. You see what I'm saying? Even when it didn't happen, we were expecting it. We knew the miraculous would come.

Sometimes there are no reasons. Often, most of the time, there are no reasons. The world cannot be explained.

How much could a heart hold? ... The goat was in his heart, too. Seemingly, the heart could hold an untold amount of things--letters and people and goats and bees. Seemingly, there was no limit to what it could contain.

We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong, said the blackbird. We shall all, in the end, find our way home, intoned the bird.

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

He'll be dead soon. He can't live', said the father. But reader, he did live. This is the story.

Stories are light, light is precious in a world so dark.

prayed for my mama. I told God how much she would have enjoyed hearing the story of Winn-Dixie catching that mouse. It would have made her laugh. I