Quotes About Faith

As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I'm secretly waiting for them to surprise me. Try as I might, I haven't been able to give up on them wholly. Even though they are nine and nine-tenths dirt, now and again they are capable of something angelic. I can't say that it restores my faith, because I really had none in the first place, but when it happens it does confuse you.

The love in a marriage turns like the lamp in a lighthouse, leaving you in darkness for long stretches, but it always comes back. I believe that but I can't tell whether it is a thought or a quotation.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

La fidelidad: ¿indispensable o necesaria? Lo segundo es más hermoso, implica opción, no tiene la fealdad de la norma. Entre lo indispensable y lo necesario corre un chorro de agua prístina que no solo refresca, sino que arremete contra la rigidez, la ablanda, la amolda y la baña de una superficie que al endurecerse la convierte en confitura y no en piedra.

Nuestros amores fueron como los misterios del rosario: gloriosos, gozosos, y cómo no, dolorosos.

Una vez la niña preguntó. _La vida va a ser así para siempre? _No, no - le contestó, definitiva, la madre -. Si fuera así, Dios no nos habría puesto sobre esta tierra. y si lo hizo, fue por algo. Espérate, ya sabremos sus razones.

un clavo en el muro es siempre un acto de esperanza sobre un lugar físico determinado, de esperanza y persistencia.

poor people are presented in the Theology of Liberation as decent, that is, asexual or monogamous heterosexual spouses united in the holy sacrament of marriage, people of faith and struggle who do not masturbate, have lustful thoughts at prayer times, cross-dress, or enjoy leather practices. However, if we keep falsifying human relationships in the name not only of God (a habit to which we have grown accustomed) we must remember that we do it also in our love for justice.

A lungo andare ogni speranza si consuma e si spegne; ma perché non dovrebbe accadere la stessa cosa alla disperazione? Finite le speranze, poi finiranno pure le disperazioni.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

Cuando llora el corazón sólo Dios escucha, el dolor se eleva desde el alma. Corta el silencio una pequeña oración. Una lágrima en mis ojos, el corazón llora en silencio. Y cuando el corazón está en silencio, el alma grita Dios mío, ahora estoy completamente solo Hazme fuerte... para que ya no tema. Es grande el dolor y no hay hacia donde correr. Ya no me queda fuerza. Cuando llora el corazón, el tiempo se detiene. SAMUEL ALBAZ

La Biblia enseña sabiamente que hay un tiempo para todo. Hay un tiempo para sufrir y llorar, pero también hay un tiempo para levantarse nuevamente y vivir.

This has been a repetitive pattern in the United States, where the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Jews, and other denominations have had evidence that one of their own was a predatory pedophile, yet they responded by ignoring the problem, ultimately endangering thousands of children.

I think what touched me most was a letter sent by a convent of Dominican nuns. This wonderful missive urged courage and fortitude; it was sort of the Dominican version of "Go, girlfriend.

Justice, like the will of God, doesn't always manifest itself on the spur of the moment. It doesn't always come when you think it should. You just gotta wait it out. And

You believe. You just don't put a name to it.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Prayers like gravel Flung at the sky's window, hoping to attract the loved one's attention . . . . . . I would have refrained long since but that peering once through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement of a curtain.

It's not easy, you know, to surrender yourself wholeheartedly and generously. Whether the relationship is with God or with another person, there's a great deal of giving-up of self involved in it. I couldn't do it.

Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory. The first on to use it will win.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust ' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.