Quotes About Faith

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. All I'm saying is, open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.

Love is most weak when there is more doubt than there is trust but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts." —Unknown

dare we live for one another? Dare we be happy? Child, it's our only hope. Let us make our love atone for the hate of our fathers. We have been doomed by their sins. Not that...nor anythin' can keep us apart. I am a slayer of men, but I think God spoke to me today.

The rugged fallow ground under her feet seemed to her to be a symbol of faith — faith that winter would come and pass — the spring sun and rain would burst the seeds of wheat — and another summer would see the golden fields of waving grain. If she did not live to see them, they would be there just the same; and so life and nature had faith in its promise. That strange whisper was to Lenore the whisper of God.

He saw how some divine guidance had directed his footsteps to this home. How many years had it taken him to get there!

Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent.

Give me four days. If I'm not back in four days you'll know I'm dead. For that only shall keep me. Oh! Bess, I'll come back. There's danger—I wouldn't lie to you—but I can take care of myself.

But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.

And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not equal her love.

The elder wife said that the stranger was welcome to the children, but she insisted that they hear nothing of the outside world, and that they be kept to the teachings of the Mormon geography—which made all the world outside Utah an untrodden wilderness. August Naab did not hold to the letter of the Mormon law; he argued that if the children could not be raised as Mormons with a full knowledge of the world, they would only be lost in the end to the Church.

I want to know who I can trust. Las Vegas says we're shore in for it now. Roy, what do you think?

perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His

Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it. Uncle John, y'u talk so—so

You must use that hope an' faith to help you get well.

Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.

I will live them. I will have faith and hope and love, for I am his daughter, she said.

if often telling makes it true.

She was not so swept away that she could not see the high comedy of this spiritual seduction: a Litvinoff daughter, a third-generation atheist, an enemy of all forms of magical thinking, wandering into synagogue one day and finding her inner Jew. But there it was. Something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny. And there was a sense in which its unlikelihood, its horrible inconvenience, was precisely what made it so compelling.

People always seemed to think that you stopped believing things in a single, lightning-bolt moment, an instantaneous revelation of loss. For her, at least, the process of disenchantment had been achingly slow.

I'm praying, he thought to himself.  He'd never been one for church, preferring to take his divine inspiration from what surrounded him.  But lying here with Olivia, touching her reverently, he felt something shift inside him, something large and profound, as though he'd finally learned the answer to a riddle he'd been trying to solve. 

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.