Quotes About Faith

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.

I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I just look back at my entire life. You know, my faith. I knew that I was where I was supposed to be.

I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.