Quotes About Faith

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don't make me mean. I don't want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I'll give you anything in the world, and if I haven't got it, why, I'll go for to get it. I don't want to be mean. I don't want to be lonely. For Jesus' sake, Amen.

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent.

Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.

They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Abra was ready ere I called her name. And though I called another, Abra came.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin-- well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn' stand 'em!

You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

Nobody knows. What good's an opinion if you don't know? My grandfather knew the number of whiskers in the Almighty's beard. I don't even know what happened yesterday, let alone tomorrow. He knew what it was that makes a rock or table. I don't even understand the formula that says nobody knows. We've got nothing to go on -- got no way to think about things.

If there is no God, no devil, no heaven, no hell then therefore there are no rules.

It was a matter of some sorrow to Fauna that she didn't entirely believe in astrology, but she had found that nearly everyone wants to believe that the stars take notice of us.

You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit.