Quotes About Faith

Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.

Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up?

Someday soon," he says. "I promise.

May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

It's the small miracles that happen every day that keep us going. You just have to look for them and believe. ...said by Papa James in Homespun Hearts

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.

And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil, Only beauty will call to them and save them So that they will know how to say: this is true and that is false.

The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later...

The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable.

In 1942 in Warsaw, we were living without hope, or rather on a hope we knew to be a delusion.

El verdadero opio del pueblo es la creencia en la nada después de la muerte; el gran consuelo que trae pensar que no vamos a ser juzgados por nuestras traiciones, avaricia, cobardía y crímenes

I wanted to be a judge but those whom I called "they" have changed into myself. I was getting rid of my faith so not to be better than me and women who are certain only of their unknowing. And on the roads of my terrestrial homeland turning round with the music of the spheres I thought that all I could do would be done better one day.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

If there is no God, Not everything is permitted to man. He is still his brother's keeper And he is not permitted to sadden his brother, By saying there is no God.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

They needed me only in misfortune, To conjure heavenly powers. So they could come and be saved From a tumor in the lungs or a viral infection.

If we trust our own strength (said Mr. Orme), it may sustain us up to a certain point and then give way and let us down just at the moment when we need it most, but if the Lord is our strength, and our hearts trust in Him, He gives us His help in time of trouble.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

Within the magic world view, coincidence is confirmation.