Quotes About Faith

He still loves life But O O O O how he wishes The good Lord would take him.

Auden Letter to Lord Byron Banker or Landlord, booking clerk or pope, Whenever he's lost faith in choice and port, Whenever man sees the future without hope Whenever he endorses Hobbes report, The life of man is nasty, brutish, short, The Dragon rises from his garden border, And promises to set up Law and Order.

He has never seen God, but, once or twice, he believes he has heard Him.

It is through you that God has chosen to show me my beatitude.

To God, the right kind of human life looks well-meant but incompetent. Zeal is more important than technique.

If I were asked to name people whom I considered true Christians, the name 'George Orwell' is one of the first that would come to my mind.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

No esperes mucho: no temas nada»,

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.

A garden is made of hope.

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree

I look for you my curl of sleep my breathing wave on the night shore my star in the fog of morning I think you can always find me I call to you under my breath I whisper to you through the hours all your names my ear of shadow I think you can always hear me I wait for you my promised day my time again my homecoming my being where you wait for me I think always of you waiting

apparently we believe in the words and through them but we long beyond them for what is unseen what remains out of reach what is kept covered

he suggested I pray to the Muse get down on my knees and pray right there in the corner and he said he meant it literally

endless patience will never be enough the only hope is to be the daylight

what I live for I can seldom believe in

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin, from "Wild Oats," The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

As long as I try, there's always a chance of getting up. It's not the end until you give up.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.