Quotes About Faith

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

there is still something about faith that I cannot let go of. I do not know what this world is, but I know that it contains miracles that I cannot explain, and the love that people have for each other is the biggest mystery of all.

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.

I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . ." My voice trails off. "Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can't—and you'll be right every time.

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then.

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

you cannot take something i trust you with and use it against me -- plain truth

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

The Bible promises a land of milk and honey. The Koran says paradise has rivers of honey for those who guard against evil. Krishna, the Hindu deity, is often shown with a blue bee on his forehead. The bee itself is considered a symbol of Christ: the sting of justice and the mercy of honey, side by side.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Because when you get right down to it, the only person you should trust is the one you'd lay down your life for.

She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.