Quotes About Faith

Great love conquers all fear.

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.

There are all kinds of stars in God's skies. Some are so bright and twinkly they take your breath away; and others don't shine so brightly but they're still tehre. Thier light's just a little softer, that's all.:

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Mama, you don't understand. It's all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don't acept. It's not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don't believe in God. I don't even think about it. It's just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it's he who makes miracles!

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

No matter how bad things get, Frannie darling, they can always get worse and they can always get better. Expect worse and you'll never be disappointed.Expect better and you'll always have something to look forward to.

You are now in league with the devil, my lady. May you rest easier at night than I

He'd follow her into hell to claim what was due to him. Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him.

Why did you tell me all this?" "So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.

What women these Christians have." ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar

The smile on my face is the response given to God when he smiled at me

Don't be fooled, God does not take chances.

You may doubt the preacher, but never the word of God

Time and again I heard my grandmother Wells say she would give her own hearing to make her daughter "whole." In her mind, deafness was some kind of divine retribution.

When I'm rushing on my runAnd I feel just like Jesus's son

It takes a busload of faith to get by.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

God calls each and every star by name. It's not likely He has forgotten yours.

admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.