Quotes About Faith

Life may seem disastrous, but keep your head up; it always gets better when you have hope.

But she'd begged before. She'd gotten on her knees and begged God to let things work out for them. To let her have what she wanted. And then...to let her forget she'd ever wanted it. She knew what begging sounded like. Weak and broken and so desperate you wished you were dead.

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.

the priest just as he was about to begin a service or to search houses as the dancing

I was sure I could bring him back to health. He died…a

Our own ways always circle around back to ourselves. But when God leads our way, then it leads to him. God's ways lead to God. God leads us through happiness or unhappiness—always only to God. By this we recognize God's ways.

Not our outstretched beggars' hands, but rather that with which God fills them is what matters; and that means precisely not us and our actions, but rather first of all God and God's actions.

God revealed in the flesh," the God-human Jesus Christ, that is the holy mystery, which theology was instituted to preserve and protect. What foolishness, as if it were the task of theology to decode God's mystery, pulling it down to the commonplace, miracle-less words of wisdom based on human experience and reason! Whereas this alone is its charge—to keep the miracle of God a miracle, to comprehend, defend, and exalt the mystery of God, precisely as mystery.

No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet all Christian theology finds its origin in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

Without that holy night, there is no theology.

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Noam wouldn't die. He couldn't. Dara wouldn't let him.

Death is not an end, but a transition. A passage from one realm to another. And those who have passed on are still with us, watching over us, guiding us, loving us." (Kneubuhl 23_

One last Rule of Life: When your heart is cracked open with grief and sorrow, look for that soft light somewhere you don't expect to find it. Trust it. Love makes heroes of us all.

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

Whatever people say about the General today, I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most.

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.

I need not look in the mirror or at the faces of my fellow men to find a likeness to God. I need only look at their selves and inside my own to realize we would not be killers if God Himself was not one, too.

At least these cretins knew fear, one of the two great motives for belief. The question the baseball bat would not resolve was whether they knew the other motive, love, which, for some reason, was much harder to teach. (247)

They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both.

This is what I think so many of us who work in the arts and the humanities hope to receive from our universities, from our government, from sometimes skeptical students and their parents: patience and faith in us as we test the limits of our ignorance, as we pursue what may very well be useless, as we go in search of that mystery and intuition that exist within all of us.