Quotes About Faith

You have to know the difference between what's of the world and what's of God. You have to want to know what he has to say. That's why it's best to pray in silence. He waits for you.

The calm, he decided, was from God. The course of action would follow.

If you live in the knowledge that this world is a gateway to the next, it can be a comfort.

As a priest I'm to provide a vessel through which God's will is executed on earth.

If there is no God, how do we explain that a machine requires a maker, but the universe does not.

You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

The church was the most important institution in Poor Valley. It served as a family of families and helped that larger family push back against the uglier potencies of nature: weather, disease, death, and the darkness in one's own heart.

Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet.. "Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!" Markham, Edwin

Valoa kohti kuljet niin kuin kevät, jos uskallat katsoa.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

Und doch sitzt in mir noch immer eine wahnsinnige Hoffnung. Ich kann nur nachsichtig darüber lächeln. Mit diesem verstockten Eigensinn habe ich als Kind gehofft, nie sterben zu müssen. Ich stelle mir diese Hoffnung als einen blinden Maulwurf vor, der in mir hockt und über seinem Wahn brütet. Da ich ihn nicht aus mir vertreiben kann, muss ich ihn gewähren lassen.

A veces pienso que mi incapacidad para creer atrae la desgracia.

Nie hab' ich die Wohltat der Beichte begriffen. Sie mag es für andere sein, und ich hoffe, daß sie es ist, aber die Mächte, denen ich unterstehe, vergessen und verzeihen nicht. Sie verstoßen endgültig das unbotmaßige Kind.

Prayerfully setting goals, putting them in writing, sharing them with others, and determining the specific things we need to do to make them happen is just the beginning. Then, as David told Solomon when he gave him the blueprints for the temple, we must "be strong and courageous and get to work. Don't be frightened by the size of the task, for the Lord my God is with you; he will not forsake you. He will see to it that everything is finished correctly" (1 Chron. 28: 20).

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

I knew I could trust her. She was a librarian, after all. It was their job to save lives with books.

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

Since the beginning of time they have remained truthful, honest, peaceful people who have never doubted their connection with the universe.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

Devil has his part to play.