Quotes About Faith

Do you believe? Belief will not save you.

We will shape God And God will shape us

So much agony caused, so much evil done in God's name.

There's always a lot to do before you get to go to heaven.

Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.

We'll adapt. We'll have to. God is Change. Strange how much it helps me to remember that.

Nehemiah, chapter four, Verse 14: "And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, be not afraid of them: remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses." Interesting. Interesting that Dad had that verse ready, and that Cory recognized it. Maybe they've had this conversation before.

Éramos batistas — falei. — Eu não conseguia acreditar, e não contava a ninguém. Meu pai era o ministro. Fiquei quieta e comecei a entender a Semente da Terra. — Começou a inventar a Semente da Terra — comentou ele. — Comecei a descobrir e a entendê-la — corrigi. — Encontrar a verdade não é a mesma coisa que inventar coisas.

Il mio Dio non mi non mi ama o mi odia, non mi sorveglia né mi conosce e io non provo né amore né lealtà nei suoi confronti. Il mio Dio semplicemente è.

God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.

But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out. There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape.

Imparando e adattandosi una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo compagno. Con lungimiranza e pianificazione una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo plasmatore. Oppure, per ristrettezza mentale e paura può restare vittima di Dio, il suo giocattolo, la sua preda.

most of us voted for Vice President Edward Jay Smith. None of us wanted an empty man like Smith in the White House, but even a man without an idea in his head is better than a man who means to lash us all back to his particular God the way Jesus lashed the money changers out of the temple.

There's always a ot to do before you get to go to heaven.

They help us to shape God and to accept and work with the shapes that God imposes on us. God is power, and in the end, God prevails. But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.

I'm not some kind of potential Job, long suffering, stiff necked, then, at last, either humble before an all-knowing almighty, or destroyed. My God doesn't love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.

For my people, I respect the gods. I speak as the voice of a god. For myself... in my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune.

I still don't believe you," she said. "Things don't have to be as bad as you say they are.

This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.

She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion more than they need anything else—even people like Zahra and Harry.

God isn't good or evil, doesn't favor you or hate you, and yet God is better partnered than fought." "Your God doesn't care about you at all," Travis said. "All the more reason to care about myself and others. All the more reason to create Earthseed communities and shape God together. 'God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace—and how to deal with the others.

We must be reeducated. We must accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, Jarret's Crusaders as our teachers, Jarret as God's chosen restorer of America's greatness, and the Church of Christian America as our church. Only then will we be Christian patriots worthy to raise children.

She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter. How could she do that? Did she really believe in anything at all? Was it all hypocrisy?

Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?