Quotes About Faith

Felt his lips, touching her forehead. "You're not going to die, Maeve. You're not going to die, because I am not going to let you die. Do you hear me? And if you give up and abandon me, so help me God, I shall never forgive you.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for.

Take away religion and you seem to create a vacuum that shopping and the like rush to fill. Spiritualism, which is flourishing, isn't the same thing; it doesn't forbid much of anything except perhaps self-awareness. And religious practice without genuine faith doesn't seem to work either; apparently rituals have to be faith based, like any other placebo, to have any benefit.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. —RUDYARD KIPLING, "THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,The Devil always builds a chapel there;And 'twill be found, upon examination,The latter has the largest congregation.

In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes?

Like Abraham, as we embark on our own journey, have a lil faith, take the imparted wisdoms from our parents/teachers, go forward and be attentive always to the quiet voice of your heart

no matter what happens to our bodies o our minds, our souls remain whole.

most people are good," says Jim. "But not when they're afraid.

Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal

I believe in the future. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

All things are born from the mind of god. But in the last month, the mind of god has gone insane.

In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls….Rather we are…instruments of His will, providing mansions for the souls that He creates. —ALAN TURING, 1950

I don't know it for sure. Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something.

The only enduring motive for prayer is that our never-changing God is worthy to be sought. This