Quotes About Faith

When people think their lives are without meaning, they'll seek meaning even from the creepiest of charlatans

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

I wish I could believe in reincarnation," I said. "Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph.

A man who believes in nothing may look strong, but he's fragile. He can be made to believe in anything, for the emptiness in him yearns to be filled.

that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. She

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

My intellect is God-given. I've a sacred obligation to use it.

Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart's yearning and the mind's keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. 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.

They said that man proposes, God disposes;

But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they'll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.

We all arrive in this world with a ticket out of it, but somehow, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we remain convinced that those we care about will be with us for a long ride.

Megan Bookman's

His heart knocked as if on Heaven's door.

A novena to the darkness

the heart is deceitful above all things.

every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

Harry Carlisle