Quotes About Faith

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

If people are forced to suppress the emotion of love for their fellow human beings then they certainly can't have love for anything else, including God.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come

Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.

Mothers began to bet on their sickly children's lives

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

Si Dios no existe, todo queda permitido.» FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

They know God exists already that's old. I think now they're trying to figure what to do with It." "What to do with God." "Maybe worship. Maybe disinfect.

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

Even God can't plan for everything. Too many variables.

Brüks had never been entirely clear on what an omniscient being would need a computer for. Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of the exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.)

The difference between Science and Faith, therefore, is no more and no less than predictive power. Scientific insights have proven to be better predictors than Spiritual ones, at least in worldly matters; they prevail not because they are true, but simply because they work.

THE LORD WILL TAKE CONTROL OF YOU. YOU WILL DANCE AND SHOUT AND BECOME A DIFFERENT PERSON. —1 Samuel 10:6

REALITY IS THAT WHICH, WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING IN IT, DOESN'T GO AWAY. —PHILIP K. DICK

They're not gods," Brüks reminded him softly. "Not yet." "Not ever." "That's denial." "Better than genuflection.