Quotes About Faith

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE... ...they go away. ...strangers die. ...people you know fairly well die. ...friends die. ...people murder people, like in books. ...your own folks can die. So...

Jump and let's build our wings on the way down

if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.

Don't they get afraid, then? They have a religion for that.

It's the way God runs the world. Tom thought about this for a moment. He's all right, Doug, said Tom. He tries.

Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo.

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true?

I never thought of God as humorous," said Father Stone. "The Creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man? Oh, come now!

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. May I ask you a question? Yes. Have you ever thought you were Christ? I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.

But what is shape? Only a cup for the blazing soul that God provides us all.