Quotes About Faith

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go.

figured Godwin

I could hear them whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think so and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

I could hear [the old ladies from Thalia] whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948

God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

You know the truth, now. You know that reason alone is not enough. You must ask for grace . .

trust his intent, question his judgment

O ser humano, esse estranho animal, balançando entre animal e esperança.

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

But I'm left sitting here, without him, anyway. Doesn't that make me as ridiculous as my mother is? Doesn't it make me the same as her? Both of us putting our faith in someone else above everything else—calling it love. What good is love, if this is where it leads you?

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falling apart, and maybe coming together in a greater way than I could have hoped for. You couldn't always work so hard to fix it. Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to -Georgia

Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.

Maybe that's the way everything changes. Just when you finally believe that anything is stable, and will stay the same.

of how to answer

Y juró ante su tumba que ella nunca renunciaría al amor

Tú, todo tú, eres amor incandescente. Amor que no muere. Amor que permanece. Amor que no duele, aunque en este instante me encuentre llorando.

Señor, no es por vicio ni por fornicio sino por dar un hijo a tu servicio.

A total of six thousand Cholultecans perished. Cortés ordered the few priests who survived to wash the floors and walls, to rid the temples of idols and in their place to install crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

I wonder how much time had passed between the moment God said Let there be light and the appearance of light? Sometimes, the mere difference of a single second between one event and another can be enough to turn our lives around one hundred and eighty degrees.

M.J. looked at her. What's the difference between God and a federal judge? I don't know. God doesn't think he's a federal judge. Tara smiled, for what seemed like the first time in days.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.