Quotes About Faith

But Hector had his zoot suits, and Joey had his crosses, and Nate had the six-pointed star he wore under his shirt with his dog tags on every mission.

Would that change? With enough peace, enough joy, would hope stop being the traitor at Deacon's table? Someday, maybe. Someday, maybe hope would be his friend.

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

could show you such faith," he said, almost transported by the thought. "I could believe in you until all your pain faded to memories. I could believe in you as we lived side by side. I could be your lawyer and defend your right to make beautiful porn until we're too old to get it up. My faith could be absolutely boundless, if only….

Do you know what I'd do with that kind of faith?" John asked, knowing he couldn't answer. "I'd hold it so tight inside, it'd never have a chance to disappear. Nobody has ever believed in me like that. If you believed in me like that, you'd better believe I'd never let you go." "Deal," Galen breathed, and although John startled and thought seriously about cursing at him, he didn't.

Dane lowered his ear to make out what Clay was saying. It sounded like "Please get better, please get better, please get better…." And Dane closed his eyes and steeled his cynical heart and prayed.

That's the hard part. The hope. You two gotta decide if you're up for the hope and the disappointment right there, because that's the hard part.

I don't care if it's a mosque, a monastery, or a motherfucking cathedral. The next time that man wants to take you to a holy place and thank a higher power for you, go with him. And thank God personally, from me, that you have somebody who loves you like you deserve.

How resilient did someone have to be to have gone through all of that and still have a laugh that rang through the trees like bells, making them holy?

If you love them and have faith in them, you'll see them at their best every day.

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.

It's a mystery. It's like all babies. It's a mystery, and all we can do is pray.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Sometimes we don't question things. Sometimes we just accept them. That's faith, Piper, and that's what's required here.

How do you teach hope?

Steven's gone," April cried. "My baby's out in the storm, him and the dog are both gone!

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

God doesn't say, "Don't worry too much" or "Worry only about what really matters." He says, "Do not worry.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

Every Christian must refer always and everywhere to Scriptures for all his choices…not daring to take a step without being illuminated by the divine rays of those words.

It's much safer, in many congregations, to assure the faithful how our souls are saved through divine grace rather than to suggest that our societies are saved through personal and corporate aid to the poor.