Quotes About Faith

I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.

Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again;

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Bleachy ozone tingled in my sinuses, but I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.

I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did.

Grandpa Teddy often said, "In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

When you realize you're fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it's best to surrender to nature.

Sometimes, when someone has led a nearly perfect life but is not yet worthy of nirvana, that person is reincarnated as a very beautiful dog. When the life as the dog comes to an end, the person is reincarnated one last time as a human being, and lives a perfect life. Your dog is a person who has almost arrived at complete enlightenment and will in the next life be perfect and blameless, a very great person. You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answers...God doesn't shout, He wispers, and in the wispers is the way.

Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.

Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.

Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don't rot and vanish;

I am an optimist about our species. I assume God is, too, for otherwise He would have scrubbed us off the planet a long time ago and would have started over.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.