Quotes About Faith

This is his life: confrontation with the darkness that has nothing to do with an absence of light.

Saffron "Sunny" Ketterling

and they believe he or she might have gotten as far as Jacob's Ladder, her island, her home.

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

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." He

I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days.

If that were to happen, she couldn't keep her Promise.

on her deathbed... I tell her she is as good a soul as I have ever met or hope to meet, that she is an angel in the flesh, and that I will speak her name to God every night of my life before I go to sleep.

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

I had only asked God for a time-out, which had been granted, but now the clock was ticking again.

She'd always chosen not to be victimized, to resist and fight back, to hold on to hope and dignity and faith in the future. But victimhood was seductive, a release from the responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

May the judgment not be too heavy upon us.

Lisa Chelgrin.

their mission was as simple as that of young Mormons going door-to-door to share the message of the Latter-day Saints.

Poor Clares.

Joel Bandiri

She could remain an optimist because she understood that the world was made exclusively for the innocent. Rooms to house the wicked weren't included in the original architecture. Eventually, the world would be remodeled to restore it to its original purpose.

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

actually Dorian Purcell.

Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of a deep hole. The second hand was faith—the faith that her hope would be borne out;

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.