Quotes About Faith

There's this little acronym I was taught in grade school—it's J-O-Y. It's supposed to make Plain children remember that Jesus is first, Others come next, and You are last.

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?

Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side.

We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to Queen Maureen said And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Finding God's grace wasn't like locating missing keys or the forgotten name of a 1940s pinup girl – it was more of a feeling: the sun breaking through an overcast morning, the softest bed sinking under your weight. And, of course, you couldn't find God's grace unless you admitted you were lost.

We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike. ...But none of these things mean we all think alike.

There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of these things, are you also betraying yourself?

Because you make me believe there are things worth fighting for.

I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow-- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course.

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man.

I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if it's just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet.

I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet. The

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. —Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

A sacrament - like marriage - means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don't let go and let God. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. There's just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it's our time.

I don't believe in God but sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other and to thrive in spite of the odds.

His hand fell like a prayer on her temple.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

really wanted Sage Singer to prove me wrong.

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right.