Quotes About Faith

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?' 'If you don't, why should I?' 'If you did, maybe I would.' 'If I did, you would not have to.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to think she was inadequate to the strict plain shapes of churchly faith. Head pains hit her at the end of the day. They came with a shining, an electrochemical sheen, light from out of nowhere, brain-made, the eerie gleam of who you are.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

Miracles share the landscape with death.

I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then why don't we obey the laws of God's universe, which teach us how small we are and where we're all going to end up?

Why don't you want to be Jewish anymore? I'm tired of the guilt. That enormous nagging historical guilt. What guilt? The guilt of being innocent victims.

Tyle w nich by?o chrze?cija?stwa. I tak niewiele z Chrystusa.

There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.

A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.

When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith?

This is why we are here. A tiny minority. To embody old things, old beliefs. The devil, the angels, heaven, hell. If we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse." "Pretend?" "Of course pretend. Do you think we are stupid? Get out from here." "You don't believe in heaven? A nun?" "If you don't, why should I?" "If you did, maybe I would." "If I did, you would not have to.

The son of a bitch believes.

If we believe we are just being naughty in the classroom of life, how can we ever hear this beautiful invitation from Jesus? If we believe in lukewarm sin, won't our repentance be lukewarm as well?

At what point is it acceptable to give up?

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

To love is just a choice. We choose love, or we choose fear; we cannot serve two masters.

Tanr? için kan?t aramay?n. Sadece olun, risk al?n ve yaÅŸam?n?zdan haz al?n. Önemli olan budur. Hay?r demek istediÄŸinizde hay?r deyin. Evet demek istediÄŸinizde evet deyin. Sizin kendiniz olmaya hakk?n?z var. Ancak yapabileceÄŸinizin en iyisini yapt???n?zda kendiniz olursunuz. En iyisini yapmad???n?zda, kendiniz olma hakk?n? elinizden al?yorsunuz.

The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

be impeccable with your word. Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John in the Bible, speaking of the creation of the universe says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God." Through the word you express your creative power. It is through the world that you manifest everything. The world is a force... Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.

As my friend and coach, Nelson Searcy, says, "Hope is not a church strategy.

Anytime a church chooses to move forward, there will be conflict, because we are in a war.

We don't pray for rain. We wait for rain, and when it comes, we thank God for it.

Unlike many of their consumer-minded neighbors, the Amish do not assemble their spirituality piecemeal by personal preference.