Quotes About Faith

He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.

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No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.

You know wherever I am, I'll come running to see you again

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.

Faithful, you have fulfilled your worthy name. "Faithful" to Him with whom you now are blessed. While pleasure-seekers, men without your faith, Cry out in fear, and cannot hope for rest. Sing, Faithful, sing! Your name will now survive

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

I hope I die in the night.

You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth.

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death—those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement—been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

Let's think about this, shall we? Without goals, we aren't motivated, are we? Without goals, we're not financially prosperous! Without goals, we can't achieve what Christ wants for us as Christians and members of the community!" Harriet, he noticed with a bit of a start, was glaring at him rather aggressively.

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Will you tell us why John the Baptist went forth crying in the wilderness?" Hely writhed. "Because Jesus made him do it." "Not quite!" said Mr. Dial, rubbing his hands.

What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture—blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only knew the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it? You don't know what Dionysus looks like. We're talking about God here. God is serious business.

quién dijo que la coincidencia es la manera que Dios tiene de permanecer anónimo?

Dear Jesus, he said, pressing thumb and forefinger into his tightly shut eyes. What a privilege it is to stand before you this day! What a blessing to pray with You! Let us be joyful, joyful, in Your presence! What's he talking about? thought Harriet, dazed. Her mosquito bites itched, but she didn't dare scratch them. Through half-closed eyes, she stared at her feet.

I've come to believe that there's no truth beyond

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death—those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement—been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted

If one is to read Dante, and understand him, one must become a Christian if only for a few hours.

If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, it it better to turn away? Or- like Boris- is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?