Quotes About Faith

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!

There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

Today was scary. But they're all scary. We can't fret around the planet waiting for something to kill us, or worried something's going to kill someone we love. I'm not going to stare off into the void waiting for it all to end.

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader The Holy Bible Elizabeth Bishop Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives, translated by Natasha Wimmer

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.

I did manage to read some pages from a book that's also about how people can find strength they didn't know they had." "What book was that?" "The Book of Common Prayer," Mom answered. "Didion?" "No, Will." Mom's voice was somewhere between amused and exasperated. "The other one." And then she added, smiling: "Besides, I think the Didion is A Book of Common Prayer, not 'The Book.'