Quotes About Faith

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

A religion that cannot help people become happy and lead fulfilling lives cannot possibly realize world peace and free the world's people from suffering.

I therefore hope you will pray about your problems in front of the Gohonzon. When we take our problems to the Gohonzon and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, courage wells forth and hope begins to shine in our hearts. "Faith for overcoming obstacles" is the same as "prayer for overcoming obstacles" and "chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for overcoming obstacles.

Please don't worry. As long as you're practising this faith, you can definitely become happy. That's what Buddhism is for. Also, your current suffering and misfortune exist so that you may fulfil your own unique and noble mission. Everything will turn to defeat if all you do is worry about your karma and let it make you miserable.

Quando soffri può sembrarti che questa sofferenza duri per sempre. Ma, sii certa, non sarà così. L'inverno si trasforma sempre in primavera. Nessun inverno dura per sempre.

My mom would go crazy. I can't read all these sex poems. We're Christian.

Lou's was like a tour through Crucifix World with a spontaneous stop in Jesus Country.

The Lord says to forgive is devine. -The Lord didn't go to high school with you.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything." It

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

The problem is this. We worship the new instead of the eternal. And when we worship the new, we are always changing our allegiances, because there will always be something newer. Look

All Christianity concentrates on the man at the cross-roads. The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk about ages and evolution and ultimate developments. The true philosophy is concerned with the instant. Will a man take this road or that?

In his book on the saint, Chesterton says that, for Francis, religion was not a theory but a love affair, and "there are those who do not believe that a heavenly love can be as real as an earthly love.

There is the striking chapter on "The Five Deaths of the Faith" near the end of The Everlasting Man, arguably Chesterton's masterpiece, in which he declares that "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

When Chesterton was asked why he became Catholic, he answered, "To get rid of my sins."8 He says that only the Catholic Church can do that, and that when a man steps out of the confessional, he is only five minutes old. His whole life has started over again.

When Chesterton says we must not trust humanity, he especially reminds us not to put too much trust in politics or in whatever political party we pick. We generally expect too much from political parties, but none of them is based on any permanent philosophy, and, because of that, at some point they will conflict with faith.

Changing the theology, changing the rules, does not bring freedom. Only truth brings freedom. And