Quotes About Faith

Temujin snorted. "Never lose faith in me, little brother. My word is iron and I will always come home.

The great moments of your life are still ahead. Yet if you only take a step when you are certain you are right, you will never move at all.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

Keep him alive," he whispered to the sky father. "Keep him strong and healthy. Keep him alive, for me to kill.

When Mrs. Carlton from church said she was shocked to see a Catholic next to Jesus in the McGinty house, Sam's mother stopped pouring coffee into her cup. "Well, Gloria, God loves everyone. Even the bigots." Mrs. Carlton picked up her purse and left. Daddy loved that story.

No matter what happens in life, just keep walking. You never know what's around the corner.

we are betrayed in the very same close relationships where primal trust is possible. We can be truly betrayed only where we truly trust—by brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, not by enemies, not by strangers. The greater the love, the greater the betrayal. Trust has in it the seed of betrayal.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. —Tehyi Hsieh

What doesn't work is to worry harder. Gotta keep our faith in human incompetence. No matter how hard we try to screw things up, we're only human: good chance we'll screw up the screwing-up. -From Bishop & Fuller's "Survival.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives a little flame, always bright, always attentive to His Presence.

In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

Child, the future is like looking in a mirror—we can see the here and now; we can see what's behind us; but we can't see what will be reflected in the mirror when we walk away. Tomorrow is going to be hard to get through, we know that—but trust that the future

The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window: TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAIN PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS. She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said. "Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.

I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life." ~Aunt Persis

Priveau de departe spre imparatia mortii si a vesniciei, catre care se indreptau. Un mers pe pamant, dar care se sfarseste in vesnicie, caci el nu se intreapta catre un scop pamantesc, catre un obiect ori o fiinta, ci spre un lucru care se afla dincolo.

Viata pe pamant e ca un torent. Trebuie sa-l traversezi inot pentru a ajunge pe celalalt mal. Grijile de capatai ale omului de pe pamant sunt de a nu fi purtat de torent. De moda. De noutati. Doar animalele moarte, cadavrele, sunt duse de curent. Trebuie sa tii capul sus daca vrei sa inoti bine.

In this sign shalt thou conquer.

Angela Dodson: Well, this has been real educational, but... I don't believe in the devil. John Constantine: You should... He believes in you.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which habitually force us into circumstances and situations we hate and abhor.