Quotes About Faith

When we stop believing in God, we don't suddenly believe in "nothing" … we believe anything.

Here's to all the songs and all their singers, in times of darkness and times of light.

Job, actually. I read it once a long time ago. It seems more frightening now though. The man who begins to doubt, who shouts out against his God, looking for a response, and who gets one. 'God gave the world to the wicked,' he says at one point, and 'Why should I bother?' at another." "It sounds interesting. But he goes on bothering?" "Yes, that's the incredible thing.

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

Sin and evil weren't black – he'd argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.

trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

I know people talk about the opposite of truth and the opposite of love. What is the opposite of fear? The opposites of unease and panic and regret?

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or "victory disease"—a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its symptoms were overconfidence, a failure to weigh risks properly, and a basic misunderstanding of the enemy.

keep faith in "the advantages to be expected from perseverance…so long as any chance for success may remain.

Many as we are we're all as one We will always be up front to face the gun And we shall always hold the promise dear And we will whisper not, the littlest tear. Punished as we are we always fight Even to the armoured eyes of spite. Trusted as we are we'll never bleed The promise is so great within our creed.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

Ramadan is a boot camp for the Muslim body and soul. In this Holy month, make everyday count.

Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature—a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Winwood Reade (1872)

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism.

He moved toward her like a pilgrim on holy ground.

If that was the case, I had to accept it. I had to trust my mother's words: God will get you out in His time.

Man, don't worry about me," he said. "I know you're going to get out of there." "Dad, I don't know if I'm ever coming home. You can have one of my lungs. If I'm gonna die in prison, I'd rather something of mine be free.