Quotes About Faith

I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise it or announce it at every turn, and she has nothing but scorn for the patriarchal hierarchy that runs the church, but she nevertheless holds firm to a belief in the religion and ritual with a quiet intensity that can't be shaken.

That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day"—he held his arms wide—"you can do anything." She'd

You've mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You've been betrayed. Lied to. So you've chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I'm sure. But it also isolates you from the rest of humanity. You are disconnected. You are displaced. And the only way to find your way back to a place, to a connection, is to trust again.

You told yourself it was okay—because that's what you had to do to cross a body of water—but it wasn't.

Se o senhor algum dia vir um campo de extermínio, doutor, procure-me novamente para falar de sentimentos em relação a Deus.

How did anyone know where faith developed? One moment, it wasn't there, the next it was.

Montooth squared himself, his eyes suddenly clear. "You heard the earth's mostly water, right?" Joe nodded. "And people think God lives up in the sky, but that don't never make much sense to me because the sky is way, way up there, not part of us, you know?" "But the ocean?" Joe said. "That's the skin of the world. And I think God lives in the drops. Moves through a wave like the foam itself. I look

After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point?

She would rather have known the lie that was Brian than the truth of anything else in her life.

We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God.

Said, My whole fucking family, you believe that shit? A week ago we all in the pink, eating dinner 'round the table—my son and daughter-in-law, my daughter and son-in-law, three grandchildren, and Bess. Just sitting and eating and jawing. And then, then, it was like God Hisself reached through the roof and into their house and closed his hand 'round the whole family and squeezed. Like we was flies on the table, he said. Like that.

I want the capital-G God the televangelists claim moves tornadoes out of their paths. The one who cures cancer and arthritis in the faithful, the God professional athletes thank for taking an interest in the outcome of the Super Bowl or World Cup or home run in the 87th of 162 games played by the Red Sox this year.

How long since she yearned? How long since she dared believe something so foolish as the idea that someone anywhere has the answers to questions she can't even put into words?

Experience is the best teacher.... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of

Goal 5: That each child is able to form and grow a successful Christian family

Goal 1: That each kid is genuinely spiritually reborn and demonstrating clear evidence of the Holy Spirit

Christian parents should each mentally lay their babies on the altar, offering them to God, and promising to do all in their power to win each child to a true following of God that is not superficial, but goes all the way down into the center of their personhood. Then each couple should follow that up with regular prayer for their kids, that they believe, what to say to them, how to influence them, and for help in not turning them off to God.

that parish which allows the living to grasp the no longer cold hand of the beloved dead

Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don't.

People who murder in the name of God not only kill their victims, they kill God, too.

The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue as it is widely believed. Secular movements in the twentieth century alone killed and enslaved more people than any other movement in any century in history.

What does it mean to "carry" or to "misuse" God's name? It means committing evil in God's name. And that God will not forgive. Why not? When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn't bring God and religion into disrepute. But when religious people commit evil, especially in God's name, they are not only committing evil, they are doing terrible damage to the name of God.

There is little question Islamist terrorists and molesting clergy have both played a role in the rise of atheism in our time. No atheist activist is nearly as effective in alienating people from God and religion as are evil 'religious' people.