Quotes About Faith

[I]t's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?