Quotes About Faith

It's a blessing: every day someone shows up at the fence. And when no one shows up, a different kind of blessing. In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.

Oh we're a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We've been to the moon and we're still fighting over Jerusalem.

Love, for you is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying.

We are all just trying to be holy.

The best part of spirituality is reverence. There are other parts. Some people like to hear the sound of their own voice. If you don't believe in the world it would be stupid to paint it. If you don't believe in God, then who are you talking to?

It's hard to talk about what you believe while you are believing it. Fervor reduces thought to shorthand and all we get is an icon.

Don't make a noise, don't leave the room until I come back from the dead for you. I will come back from the dead for you.

This time everyone has the best intentions. You have cancer.

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.

And here is the tabernacle reconstructed.

Let's say you're driving down the road with your eyes closed but my eyes are also closed.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said.

Mother of God!" "That was my thought, or the Presbyterian equivalent thereof.

No need to worry. Everything's under control." "It is?" "Not my control, but somebody's.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

The bad news is that you're in free fall and there's nothing to hold on to. The good news is that there's no ground to hit.

People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.

I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated me out of, all in the name of a God whose son bore the long hair none of us were allowed to wear any more.

I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's.

There are a thousand ways to say no — but, I can't, it's impossible, it's too late — but there's only one way to say yes: with your whole being. When you do that you chose that word, it becomes the most spiritual word in the universe and your world can change.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.