Quotes About Faith

Americans were brought up to respect what was new and progressive—and more often than they wanted to admit, they died for their faith in what was bright and shiny.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.

Whether God's a Catholic, a Baptist, a Jew, a Muslim, or a quantum mechanic, He gives us compensation for our pain, compensation right here in this world, not just in those parallel to it and not just in some afterlife. Always compensation for the pain…if we recognize it when we see it.

they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion

On Religion: I'm reluctant to believe that some statue of the Holy Mother wept real tears in a church in Cincinnati or Peoria or Teaneck last week after the Wednesday-night bingo games, witnesses only by two teenagers and the parish cleaning lady. And I'm not ready to believe that a shadow resembling Jesus, cast on someone's garage wall by a yellow bug light, is a sign of impending apocalypse. God works in mysterious ways, but not with bug lights and garage walls. Dean Koontz Cold Fire

He only hoped to live, and lived on guarded hope.

Doctor, he's going to be all right, isn't he? He won't-he won't die, will he? Apparently, James Keene was aware that his naturally glum face and drooping eyes presented, merely in repose, an expression that did little to inspire confidence. He cultivated a warm smile, a soft yet confident tone of voice, and an almost grandfatherly manner that, although perhaps calculated, seemed genuine and helped balance the perpetual gloom God had seen fit to visit upon his countenance.

Easy hope was usually false hope.

God imagines the world, and the world becomes." Romanovich said, "Well, we know that matter can be transformed to energy, as burning oil produces heat and light—" "As

Even after all these uneventful years on Jacob's Ladder, I still lock the door every night.

beyond every darkness, dawn approached

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

If there's a solution to the problem, what's the point of worrying? If there's no solution to the problem, what's the point of worrying

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

When you are 70% sure, act / because the other 30% is reserved for hope / which is doubt turned upside-down.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.

Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.

Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.

With God's help she could forge a path where there hadn't been one before. With God's help she would make a way where there was none.

God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don't want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don't feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream.

I've heard there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who wake up and say 'Good Morning, God' and those who say 'Good God, Morning.

fight for me. Prove to me that you're worthy of all the faith I have in you.

for every loss there is an equal or greater gain. Often humans have to search for it, though.

Oftentimes when God works, what happens makes no sense. It will all come together down the road. Trust me on this.