Quotes About Faith

c'était pas un péché… si c'était pas un péché, je me pensais, de clôturer une chrétienne quasiment sous terre quand il faisait si beau dehors.

Il s'appelait le Louis. Crevé, fin crevé. La gerbe tremblait au bout de sa fourche, et toujours à s'en prendre au bon dieu. Comme si c'était lui, le responsable ! Au fond, c'était peut-être la première fois qu'il travaillait.

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. —C. K. Chesterton, via Evelyn Waugh

Or we of the tribe who delude ourselves into thinking the Orioles will one day win the World Series!

always on the edge of some beautiful redemption.

But there was an unfortunate complication, namely that her mother and father were Christians, and not the Jesus-is-love kind of Christians but the Hell-has-a-special-room-waiting-for-you kind.

In the beginning, deep in the papyrus, we hoped help would come. But God Himself showed that He had forgotten us, so all the more reason for the Whites to do the same.

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hoffnung ist das Gefühl, dass das Gefühl, das du hast, nicht ewig dauert

When her existence is threatened, the Church is absolved of all moral commandments

Very often people come up with spiritual beliefs to answer questions. Why did my child get sick? Why did the rain come and flood the river? People don't--and still don't--have those answers, so we try to come up with reasons.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

iGen'ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!