Quotes About Faith

We are not here to exist; we are here to live, to face death and stare it down. We are here to trust in God and to embrace this world in all its quiet and violent beauty, to break down the walls of our own prejudices and believe in something greater than ourselves. We are here to paddle into our worst fears and come out the other side to discover glaciers, to meet them face-to-face, and to celebrate a sense of wonder and God's plan that we find only in Nature.

Hush your fears, my boy, we will get across safe, though it is not going to be easy. No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives in order to save them.

Uncle Austin used to say that all of our joy and suffering comes from the same single sacred utterance; that we live by being wounded and healed and wounded again, and healed, one day at a time.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

You just don't have faith! Frank repeated. Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

we will keep going, we will keep going, because there is no such thing as fate. Because we never really come to the end.

And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another.

Also it isn't clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.

Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

A talib is a seeker. And the seeker's tariqat is his path, his special path you know, on the road to reality.

she keeps a shrine to Sol Invictus in her room, performs the pratahsamdhya ceremony, the salute to the sun, every morning

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason had nothing to do with it.

The religions that say you should sacrifice or even pray to a god like that, to ask them to do something material for you, are the religions of desperate and ignorant people.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, alive

Religion could not be faked or used for worldly purposes.

the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.

Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis? Experts at denial. Experts at filtering their information. Many of those walking by went to church on Sundays, believed in God, voted Republican, spent their time shopping and watching TV. Obviously nice people. The world was doomed.

All things remain in God. Even if there was no God. All things remain in something or other. Some kind of eternity outside time.

Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.

Matthew 9:22 (NLT): "Jesus turned around, and when he saw her he said, 'Daughter, be encouraged!

about his belief in God and the fact that he seemed to have a huge amount of respect for her and her decision to remain celibate.