Quotes About Faith

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

and sometimes we have to take it on faith that we are actually making progress, getting closer to our destination. Faith. Four months

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Father Veronica, not looking at me but gazing at the monitor with fear and wonder. "Bartolomeo

Never put a question mark where God puts a period.

Dear Lord, The Ripper walks the earth.

Long ago, I gave you my soul. Take care of it for me, until I find you again.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. but many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

We've got literally hundreds of cults—everything from John Believer's World Security Party, with its devilishly clever slogan, "Everybody Is Something," to Zoomites, complete with Head Zoom

I have written this book in order to make clear, "once and for all," what Jesus' life was about, and why it should matter to us.

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

From our own strength we cannot bear the least trouble, but by the Spirit's assistance we can bear the greatest.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

It is love in duties that God regards, more than duties themselves.