Quotes About Faith

brother pastorin' up round Ocala dat

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

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.

It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn is glory enough for me.

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.

That was the mystery and the mysteries are the chores of gods.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time.

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.

All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped.

Aw, don't make God look so foolish, findin' fault wid everything He made

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.

I have deep abiding faith in God.

It's abnormal for any man to have a leader other than God and Christ.

God above all.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.