Quotes About Faith

The priests and nuns in the camp proved that they had real strength of character.

Nie ma tu nikogo, Bóg stworzy? ?wiat i umar? z wysi?ku.

?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.

Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

It is written that there are three things that do not come if you are thinking of them: the Messiah, lost objects, and scorpions.

It's not about whether God exists or not. It's not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.

Many times Annushka had tried to barter with anyone she could, with God, with the Virgin, with Saint Parascheva, with the whole iconostasis, even with the closer, vaguer realm of fate.

Perhaps there were some angels watching over him; sometimes they turn up on the wrong side.

The first thing every neophyte fight must understand is that God, whatever he is, has nothing in common with humankind, and that he remains so far away as to be completely inaccessible to the human senses. The same is true of his intentions. At no point will people ever learn what he is up to.

miasteczko Cz?stochów. Roch wyja?nia mu, troch? s?owami, troch? na migi, ?e ta nazwa bierze si? st?d, i? ?wi?ty przybytek w nim si? znajduj?cy cz?sto chowa si? oczom grzeszników, i trzeba dobrze wyt??y? wzrok, ?eby go dojrze? w?ród ?agodnych wzgórz.

The first thing every neophyte must understand is that God, whatever he is, has nothing in common with humankind, and that he remains so far away as to be completely inaccessible to the human senses. The same is true of his intentions. At no point will people ever learn what he is up to.

The Messiah has to fall as low as possible, otherwise he isn't the Messiah.

Bez wiary jeste?my jak zwierz?ta. Jak bestie (...) Tylko chrze?cija?stwo chroni nas przed rzuceniem si? sobie do garde?. (...) Cz?owiek jest istot? z gruntu z?? i nieobyczajn?. Jest zbudowany z instynktów, amoralny z natury. Chrze?cija?stwo uczyni?o nas lud?mi i gdy tylko znikn? jego normy, zostaniemy z niczym, b?dzie rz?dzi? czysty nihilizm.

Only a piece of machinery could possibly carry all the world's pain. Only a machine, simple, effective and just. But if everything were to happen mechanically, our prayers wouldn't be needed.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

Ta [Jumal] on meie sees, aga meie oleme tema sees. Ta tegutseb pimesi, aga teab, mida teeb. Ta on nagu leib - igaüks saab kääru ja maitseb seda omal kombel, aga ükski leivakäär ei sisalda tervet leiba.

I pass billboards that announce in black and white, in English, 'Jesus loves even you'. I feel uplifted by the unexpected encouragement; I'm only slightly alarmed by the 'even'. (page 336)

O?wiecenie zaczyna si? wtedy, gdy cz?owiek traci wiar? w dobro i porz?dek ?wiata. O?wiecenie jest wyrazem nieufno?ci.

On the other hand, maybe God was taking away my children so as to bring me closer to Jacob.

Lordmakeusthankfulfortheseandallourmanyblessin's.Amen

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.