Quotes About Faith

I never was , but am always to be . No one has ever seen me nor will they . Yet I am the hope of all who live . What am I ? page48

I never was , but am always to be . No one has ever seen me nor will they . Yet I am the hope of all who live . What am I ?

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue [...] Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith. Gain more confidence in what is difficult. For the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Patience is all.

RAMCHARITMANAS

Regardless of how one may feel about specific doctrines of other faith traditions, this fact alone—their service to millions of fellow human beings—makes them worthy of our deep respect. Their profound benefit to others is really the ultimate reason each of us, believers and non-believers alike, must accord deep respect to the world's great faith traditions.

Then you stay in that root cellar until Jesus comes back.

You can't pee in front of little Lord Jesus, go back to the hills.

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

Only a human would die for an idea.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

The matter with human beans, the BFG went on, is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it

Well not exactly, the father said.Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

You're cheating people who trust you.

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

I find that just a little hard to believe,' Sophie said. 'I'll bet you is also finding it hard to believe in quogwinkles

no one had really believed such an enormous thing would ever get off the ground without blowing up.

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

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