Quotes About Faith

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

You don't have to believe in God to do the programme. You just have to accept that there's a higher power – it could be the lamp in the corner of the room, for all they care. Some people use nature, the ocean, their d**k – whatever comes to mind.

I have seen God, as you have," he added after a time. "I have met him, and the meeting has filled my soul with horror." The old woman was quite hidden from him in the darkness. But he heard her say in a low, almost toneless voice: "There is no joy in seeing God.

Elvileg történhet jó is ezután velünk.

those who preach the gospel to themselves are increasingly hopeful. That is because the gospel culminates in a new heaven and a new earth—a future utopia that God has promised to bring to pass. It is about "Paradise restored." The future for every Christian is an eternity with no crying, nor mourning, nor pain.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

Nuns freak me out.

I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark

For thirty millennia, three thousand years on Rathillien alone, the Kencyrath had fought the long retreat from world to world, down the Chain of Creation, waiting for their god to manifest himself through them in final battle. Chosen they were and proud, but bitter, too, over long delay, and angry that, the task being set, their god had apparently left them to accomplish it alone.

Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there.

I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!

People have got to do as Cromwell said: "not only trust in Providence, but keep the powder dry." Do your part of the work, or you cannot succeed. Mahomet, one night, while encamping in the desert, overheard one of his fatigued followers remark: "I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!" Do all you can for yourselves, and then trust to Providence

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.

God likes to be played like a piano.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

En lugar del padre nuestro, los ateos del D.F. amanecemos con la retahíla de: sálvame mano de esta pinche cloaca en que me metiste, protégeme de la bola de ojetes que quieren acabar con nosotros, sálvame de la ley y sus guardianes.