Quotes About Faith

I didn't say hope. I said faith. There's a difference... Hope is wishing for something. Faith is believing in something.

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

The prophet is one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of all time.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

I don't see how sucking the joy out of every aspect of life can be pleasing to anybody's God

I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer--not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]

He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.

O mundo não acaba. É espantoso, mas na verdade não acaba.

God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)

Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard.

I've got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don't." (Kisten)

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard." - Al to Rachel

Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home..." Gordian Pierce

Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.

Rache," he said, trying to get into my line of sight. "What more do you need? God to send a telegram? (Jenks)

Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.

Quieres saber lo que significa tener hijos?-le dije mientras se sentaba-. Pues significa que a veces tienes que dejar que tu hija haga cosas que te parecen estúpidas, confiando en que, el hecho de que tú no seas capaz de hacerlas no quiere decir que ella tampoco. Que tal vez ella es lo suficientemente sensata como para salir del embrollo en que se ha metido.

But they're dying. The church, I mean," she added as I met her eyes. "No new members. It's sad, really. The

I have lots of faith, the fallen angel said as he crouched down and coaxed the dog closer. I have faith that this is a bad idea. She's not going to belive you. She's going to think we're nuts. She's going to call the police unless she has a record, and if she does she'll run away.

Hope died hard, and the lie was easier to bear.

Grim-faced, Jenks shouted, "What are you waiting for, Ivy? God to say go?

A year of hell is worth three minutes in heaven. Or so they say.

The first went down beneath the oak, stung by the taste of steel in his blood. The second on holy ground did fall, stained with the cries of his folly. The third in the dust and salt did fail, sent back to his master, a silent warning given." Jenks looked up, clearly not seeing me. "This ground is ours. So it is said with broken wing, poisoned blood, and our unburied dead.

Practice . . . thou art my shield and sword.