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Quotes About Faith

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation
~ Diana Wynne Jones
He could not believe things could get any worse—so they had to get better.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I'm getting a figure now, by the way. If I breathe in, I almost have a waist. How about you?" "Sort of," said Polly. As Granny remarked when Polly introduced her to Fiona, both their figures were a pinch of faith, a spoonful of charity, and the rest entirely hope. But she admired Fiona's red hair and told them both not to wish their lives away. (p. 259-260)
~ Diana Wynne Jones
When there's need enough, a way can often be found.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.
~ Diane Ackerman
How could anyone reconcile the agony of the Holocaust with Hasidism, a dancing religion that teaches love, joy, and celebration?
~ Diane Ackerman
T]here is only one zot, thisness. Zot is a feminine word for this. The word zot is itself one of the names of God—the thisness of what is. The
~ Diane Ackerman
She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself, to follow her heart, even though it meant enduring a lot of self-sacrifice. Intrigued
~ Diane Ackerman
Kiddush ha-Shem, the principle of service to God, acquired a new definition in the Ghetto, where it became the struggle to preserve life in the face of destruction. A similar word arose in German—überleben—which meant to prevail and stay alive, a
~ Diane Ackerman
I believe in God,' Frank Lloyd Wright said, only I spell it Nature. Gardeners spend much of their time kneeling in postures of prayer.
~ Diane Ackerman
Carry the confidence.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Belief made no difference to the truth.
~ Diane Duane
Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.
~ Diane Duane
What's loved, lives.
~ Diane Duane
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
~ Diane Duane
Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.
~ Diane Duane
I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.
~ Diane Duane
When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?
~ Diane Duane
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?)
~ Diane Duane
Believe me, I'm not far.)
~ Diane Duane
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that how it works?
~ Diane Duane
Love never gives up, never loses faith and is always hopeful and endures every circumstance.
~ Unknown
Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.
~ Unknown
Searching too hard for God can get in the way of finding Him. Sometimes you just have to stop looking and let yourself be taken by surprise.
~ Unknown