Quotes About Faith

The image of the Church favored by the Pope is that of a "field hospital" that welcomes in those injured and heals their wounds. Meanwhile, for fundamentalists, their image of the Church is "the fortress on the hilltop" that protects the "true believers" and defends the true faith against all the enemies of God.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

I worship at the altar of obstacle and intention.

one of the great things about our country is that you get to believe or not believe in anything you want.

Do you want to be saved?" I asked. Keri cocked an eyebrow. "Like Jesus?" "Like Lancelot." "I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.

Here's the thing about believing: sometimes it's a question of will. You work at it. You keep telling yourself to believe in something, and eventually your brain surrenders and lets the belief in. Sometimes it's like a switch being flipped, an overnight thing, a wake up and look at the ceiling and say THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WORKS NOW AND I GUESS I'M OKAY WITH IT sort of thing.

HOPE. It counts for so, so much.

Hope alone can't do everything, though. Hope needs help.

When you believe something that you don't have solid proof of, that's faith, right? But faith is hard to do alone. You need others to believe the same things you do, or else you're gonna go a little nutty, aren't you.

If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.

Il vaut mieux chanter en pensant à Dieu que réciter le Coran en pensant à autre chose.

Le savant a pris la science, le renonçant a pris le renoncement, le dévot a pris les dévotions, et tous s'en est allés ainsi à Sa rencontre. Prends la pureté et cours à Sa rencontre car c'est Lui le plus pur.

I am amazed at those disciples who declare that they require this or that master. You are perfectly well aware that I have never been taught by any man. God was my guide, though I have the greatest respect for all the masters.

I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you. Just be strong a little longer. Pray to God, and you will see that He will answer you. I pray for you every night... just as I taught you to do.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

On the road of abnegation," M. Vianney was wont to say, "it is only the first step that is difficult; once we have started we go on almost mechanically.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Like Ingrid Bergman in the film Gaslight, whose husband has convinced her that she's delusional when all along he's set her up, the victims often lose faith in their ability to determine what's real and what isn't. ("Gaslight" has since become a psychological term, meaning to deliberately manipulate someone.) Being duped contaminates your entire sense of self.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.