Quotes About Faith

I believe there is a legitimate place for sweat and toil, but life is more than a climb to the top. Therefore, help me, Lord, to enjoy my work one day at a time, unhindered by my desire to get ahead. 10.

Hope opens doors that despair has slammed shut. Hope looks for the good instead of harping on the worst. Hope turns problems into opportunities and fear into faith. Is such hope a pie-in-the-sky illusion? Does it make Christians complacent, content to leave the world as it is? Maybe so for some people, but knowing our future is secure should free us to make a difference in the lives of those around us.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Um novo Deus chegou a Vakhar. A morte expulsou os deuses menores e ocupou todos os espaços vazios de seus templos. Os hinos viraram gritos. A música, tiroteio. As preces, gargantas sufocando, cheias de sangue. Eu e o Balcã somos missionários. Nossas oferendas transbordam.

God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.

It's only religion. Faith is faith, but religions are no better than the people who practise them.

She'd long ago given up trying to visualize God. There was no He or She. This was a Presence higher than gender, race or religion, transcending identity. All she would ever hope to do was follow the lamplit path into a place within and yet beyond her own heart and stay there and wait, patient and passive and without forced piety.

no religion run by human beings should ever be trusted.

How much more of this? Merrily sat down in a chair at the end of the back row, feeling as though she'd been mugged. Fragments of faith scattered like credit cards in the gutter.

No wonder most people kept it entirely out of their lives, turned a blind eye to otherworldly mysteries, embraced scepticism. And also atheism because any kind of god was just confusing. Take all this stuff away and your life would slowly become rational.

Phil Rickman

Because therapy, Laurence, is the religion of the new millennium. And we're the priests.

The postmodern mindset stands in utter disrespect for Jesus Christ, for it suggests that there are other lords and saviors just as good and just as valid.

He who loves me, let him follow me.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

A religion without followers is just a weird guy with strange ideas.

If they can't find those answers in your holy writings, they'll move on to the next person's holy writings.

The various deities worshiped over the course of human history have very little in common except that all of them have an easily expressed identity and a clearly articulated mission statement.

Whether we believe in the Devil or not is now a matter of choice. It was not always so.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

Unlike Jesus, Satan, he felt, would not scorn him, but