Quotes About Faith

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.

At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep, there must be fullness somewhere.

God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

She explains that in the evolution of religions, the god of the old religion always becomes the devil of the new.

Why is it so hard to be human being? I wonder. Why do we have to surrender? And to what? What if you refused to believe in a higher power? What if you thought you were the only trustworthy higher power? I have done that all my life and I know it doesn't work. You are not enough. Your will is not enough. But God? God is a pagan dream, conjured out of neediness.

Tot el m-a ajutat ÅŸi s? cred în tine. Sunt plin? de iubire, Doamne, parc? m? arde pe din?untru, mi-a d?ruit atâta, încât s?-mi ajung? pentru toÅ£ii anii de-acum încolo.

Dieu n'est présent en moi que sous la forme de sa question.

A po co mia?bym pisa? do Pana Boga? - Mo?e poczu?by? si? mniej samotny? - Mniej samotny z kim?, kto nie istnieje? - Spraw, ?eby istnia?. Pochyli?a si? w moj? stron?. - Za ka?dym razem, kiedy w niego uwierzysz, b?dzie troch? bardziej istnia?. Je?li si? uprzesz, zacznie istnie? na dobre. I wtedy ci pomo?e.

C'è sempre una soluzione [...]

Nessuno può evitare di soffrire.

Nonna Rosa, perché il tuo Dio permette che ci siano persone come Peggy e me? E' una fortuna che sia così, Oscar, perché la vita sarebbe meno bella senza di voi.

Si les hommes ont la naïveté de croire en Dieu, les chiens ont la naïveté de croire en l'homme.

Le cÅ"ur de l'homme est comme un oiseau enfermé dans la cage du corps.» Quand tu danses, le cÅ"ur, il chante comme un oiseau qui aspire à se fondre en Dieu.

GândeÈ™te-te puÈ›in Oscar. De cine te simÈ›i tu mai apropiat, de un Dumnezeu care nu simte nimic sau de un Dumnezeu care sufer?? - De cel care sufer?, normal. Dar dac-aÈ™ fi fost în locul lui, dac-aÈ™ fi fost Dumnezeu, dac? aÈ™ fi avut puterile lui, m-aÈ™ fi aranjat s? nu suf?r. - Nimeni nu poate s? scape de suferin??. Nici Dumnezeu, nici tu. Nici p?rinÈ›ii t?i, nici eu.

Moi, je n'ai pas peur, Momo. Je sais ce qu'il y a dans mon Coran.

Sufletul? VorbiÈ›i ca un preot, Fichet! CredeÈ›i c? exist? suflet? - Sigur. E o ran? care sângereaz? mereu È™i nu se vindec? niciodat?. Nu dispare decât odat? cu moartea.