Quotes About Faith

It seems to me it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference," he said. "Between what?" "The criminal and the wrong." "Why do you think that is, Guido?" "I'm not sure. Perhaps because, as you said before, we don't believe in the old things anymore, and we haven't found anything new, anything else, to believe in.

If criminals can't believe in an illegal deal with the police, what can they believe in?

belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In

It's the Lord who is kind, Dottore. We merely do His service.

The Cloud of Unknowing.

Who was it that said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth.

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.

What if you had never seen the sea before? What if the only thing you'd ever seen was a child's picture - blue crayon, choppy waves? Would you know the real sea if you only knew the picture? Would you be able to recognize the real thing even if you saw it? You don't know what Dionysus looks like. We're talking about God here. God is serious business.

For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.

is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Pragmatists are often strangely superstitious.

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

Understand, by saying 'God,' I am merely using 'God' as reference to long-term pattern we can't decipher.

I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door

What is unthinkable is undoable.

The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag." "You sound like my dad." "Well—let's put it another way. Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

You know,' said Francis, on the way out, 'I once made the mistake of asking Bunny if he ever thought about Sin.' 'What did he say?' asked Camilla. Francis snorted. 'He said No, of course not. I'm not a Catholic.

And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I'd liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he was never afraid. You didn't meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call "the Planet of Earth." "So—

God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince.

Things will come to you and you're not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you're doing.