Quotes About Faith

A phrase the doctor used had reassured Mom—"treatable but not curable.

Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

Usually, Mom popped right up after that [chemo] and gathered her things, and we were on our way. Today she remained in the chair. "Are you okay, Mom?" I asked. She looked very tired. "I am feeling a little sad. I know there's a life everlasting - but I wanted to do so much more here.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,

I'd read in Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith,

the book, Lamott says the two best prayers are "Help me, Help me, Help me" and "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

And when people would say to Mom, "I'll include you in my prayers," it gave her great solace. It wasn't a platitude for her—when she knew people were praying for her, it was something concrete and immense.

1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Whenever and whatever happened to alter the boy's view of the world so radically, from the moment that it happened, Mackay's story becomes one of subservience to the contrary will within him that he calls God.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.

Beliefs indeed can create reality.

My God, have mercy on my soul and on my poor people.

In a fallen world, the only currency of love is suffering. Indeed, the only way to tell how much one person loves another is by what that person is willing to endure for the other.

The promise of the Christian faith is that this life presages a glorious new life that will make present pains seem negligible:

my atheism is a conviction not based on evidence, though it leads me to seek a certain kind of solution to the evident inadequacy of materialism.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.