Quotes About Faith

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento. Y no es problema de Dios -hace tiempo abandoné a Dios-; es conflicto de identidad, de realidad.

The life of faith is a struggle enough in a broken world without us complicating it for other believers.

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

Too much hope could make it harder to accept reality when the time came.

Night has fallen. And it will last for a very long time.

If you're going to fight, fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark. And brother, it's starting to rain. — on a t-shirt being sold by a Bangkok street vendor

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

I'll be all right," Drift whispered. She leaned forward and pulled Rook into a quick, tight hug before letting go. "So will you. But you're going to have to trust." "Trust what?" Rook asked, misery welling up inside her. Drift was asking the impossible. "I trust you. I trust Fox. Isn't that enough?" "No," Drift said. "You have to trust yourself and try to give this world a chance.

There is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that life is, not quite the opposite of ideal, not quite the opposite of perfect, it just is not quite the way it should be but not quite the way it should not be either; I mean to say that in any situation, only one or two, maybe even three out of ten, things are just what you have been praying for.

Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

God came down in Jesus not to prepare us for the next world but to set us free to live in this world the way Jesus lived, which was the costly way of reconciling love, relentless hope, reverberating joy.

A grim pattern is visible in history: When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity. A culture dominated by intense faith invariably is cruel to people who don't share the faith--and sometimes to many who do.

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.

Kushan coins bore Greek or Kharoshthi script along with images of their kings, Greek, Persian, and Hindu gods, and of the Buddha. Reliable coinage helped Kushan broker commercial exchanges between China, India, Persia, and, ultimately, Rome. Kushan became a great patron of Buddhism and promoted the dissemination of the faith through Central Asia, en route to East Asia.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

And because they were always there, and always seemed to be on his side, they could always keep him sufficiently deceived to come back for more than anyone in his right senses would come back for.

That——that butterfly has got more of God in him than Jackson will ever see for the rest of eternity.

We just each believe what we're able

I believe nothing. Nothing whatever.