Quotes About Faith

Robert had little patience with these introspective bouts of mine. He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

I saw him paused before a headstone that read 'Son your mother is praying for you.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together." His manifesto as an artist.

To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

Christ died for somebody's sins / But not mine,

I thought of Thomas Paine's words: these are the times that try men's souls. Outside, the rain ceased but high winds remained. And what was truth remained the truth. It was the last day of the year of the monkey and the golden cockerel was crowing, for the insufferable yellow-haired confidence man had been sworn in, with a Bible no less, and Moses and Jesus and Buddha and Mohamed seemed somewhere else entirely.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell of prayer.

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves?

My love for him could not save him. His love for life could not save him. It was the first time that I truly knew he was going to die.

I have not sold myself to God. - Babelogue

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

You see, I think love comes from God. And so, to turn away from love, real love, it could be argued, is to turn away from God.

I have everything I prayed for. I know most would condemn me and think I've lost my soul, but I know in my heart that I have not. What can be more precious than to find true love.

It was in that way that she has best served God.

In the absence of experimental evidence, basic beliefs of theoretical physicists may initially have almost a religious flavor, guided by faith and aesthetics. Fortunately unlike religion, these beliefs soon face the hard test of experiment.

Life is a gift. Going to church is like sending a thank-you card.

I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day.

Peeps cure cancer!

Believable has nothing to do with true

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.