Quotes About Faith

Why love the god all gods detest?

We call on the gods, and the gods well know what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing. But if we are to live and reach the haven, one small seed could grow a mighty tree -

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Try before you trust.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

Someone speak to the God. Someone turn the moon. My country is in Muhurram. And I have to call it an Eid.

The Sages promise us that anyone who studies the Torah will derive spiritual purification from his studies (Berachos 16a).

And trust dies from ifs and buts

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

God or the mysterious bounty of the world...

There was the same old dread, and there was the same old hope

Beneath it all was a kind of faith.

When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as opposed to the philosophic impulse, which is to doubt & inquire. They should prefer the risk of being wrong and in love to being in doubt and without love.

We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must somehow also be able to fix everything about our lives. We exaggerate the other's powers in a curious sort of homage—heard in adult life decades down the line—to a small child's awe at their own parents' apparently miraculous capacities.

In a world beset by fundamentalists of both believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with a selective reverence for religious rituals and concepts.

Chi pronuncia parole d'amore è come chi lancia un messaggio in codice con una trasmittente difettosa, senza mai essere sicuro di cosa viene captato (e, ciò nonostante, come un dente di leone che libera infinite spore delle quali una minima parte si riproduce, quel fortuito, ottimistico tentativo di telecomunicazione va compiuto - fiducia nel servizio postale).

We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must somehow also be able to fix everything about our lives. We exaggerate the other's powers in a curious sort of homage—heard in adult life decades down the line—to a small child's awe at their own parents' apparently miraculous capacities. To

The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray.

Wat hield deze liefdespermanentie in? Een zeker geloof in de liefde van de ander, dat zonder onmiddellijk bewijs of teken van de belangstelling van de geliefde in stand kon blijven, het geloof dat de partner, hoewel voor het weekend in Milaan of Wenen, niet bezig was een cappuccino of Sachertorte te nuttigen met een liefdesrivaal, het geloof dat een stilte gewoon een stilte was en niet een aanwijzing dat de liefde ter ziele was.

ai nevoie de o anumit? for?? ca s? plângi, de încrederea c? pân? la urm? o s?-È›i poÈ›i st?vili lacrimile.

Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.