Quotes About Faith

CHURCH, not CHOCOLATE, is the TRUE MEANING of EASTER!!

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled. Not for a minute.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

But I do like the church. I like the smell of polished wood and incense. I like the colored window glass and the statue of Saint Francis. Reynaud says Saint Francis is the patron saint of animals, who left his life to live in the woods. I'd like to do that. I'd build myself a house in a tree, and live on nuts and strawberries. Maman and I never go to church. Once, that might have caused trouble. But Reynaud says we don't have to go. Reynaud says God sees us, and cares for us, wherever we are.

We do not— interpret —God's laws to suit ourselves. Or the laws of our country

Love is the thing that only God sees.

And I, her daughter, listening wide-eyed to her charming apocrypha, with tales of Mithras and Baldur the Beautiful and Osiris and Quetzalcoatl all interwoven with stories of flying chocolates and flying carpets and the Triple Goddess and Aladdin's crystal cave of wonders and the cave from which Jesus rose after three days, amen, abracadabra, amen.

After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead.

Os instantes do Diabo intercalavam-se nos minutos de Deus, e o relógio foi assim marcando alternativamente a minha perdição e a minha salvação.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.