Quotes About Faith

La convicción religiosa puede destruir un tímido deseo, pero nada puede obstaculizar una pasión genuina.»

Then he told himself to be calm: this took place a thousand times a day all over the world. He did not need to understand it. The baby would come without his help.

proselytizers

We must help them, even if they have the plague. Our lives are not our own, to be protected like gold hidden under the earth. We have given ourselves to God, to use as he wishes, and he will end our lives when it suits his holy purpose.

consolation

era mejor morir que renunciar a la esperanza de una vida mejor.

Si os quedáis en casa, no podéis ir a la iglesia. La santidad es la mejor medicina.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

Monks did better to live a life of resignation, accepting the tribulations and setbacks of this world as lessons in patience, taught by the Almighty.

Não sabia explicar o motivo por que, com tanta frequência, Deus levava as melhores pessoas e deixava as más vivas para continuarem a praticar o mal. Em momentos como aquele, a ideia de uma divindade benevolente encarregada de zelar pelo bem de todos perdia qualquer espécie de credibilidade.

S?-?i schimbi credin?a la fiecare schimbare a monarhului se numea "politic?", iar oamenii care f?ceau a?a ceva se numeau "politicieni".

Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

Dios no haría un cuchillo con papel.

aspergillum with which he was sprinkling the holy

If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to--

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy--Henry's first cousin, I believe--would come home boozed, and John never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry booze come to be sort of holy to him and with faith like that John grew up religious as a deacon.

God looks out for fools and niggers.

To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.

To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. I once had a pet pine squirrel named Omar who lived in the cotton secret