Quotes About Faith

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there?s so many distractions.

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

Creo en la poesía, en el amor y en la muerte, por eso precisamente creo en la inmortalidad.

Chaque homme est son propre dieu. C'est en choisissant un autre qu'il se renie et devient aveugle et injuste.

In the eyes of Popes and Imams we are Us and Them, but in the eyes of the Lord we are one.

Even though I was growing up in a land that had been tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield.

Ce que Dieu te prête, tu dois savoir le rendre. Aucune chose, sur terre, ne t'appartient vraiment.

Le courage, monsieur Krausmann, le courage tout court, c'est de croire en soi.

Personne ne croit au miracle des pluies, aux féeries du printemps, encore moins aux aurores d'un lendemain clément. Les hommes sont devenus fous ; ils ont tourné le dos au jour pour faire face à la nuit. Les saints patrons ont été destitués. Les prophètes sont morts et leurs fantômes crucifiés sur le front des enfants...

Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?