Quotes About Faith

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, "Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.

Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

There is no God, I'm sure of that. But the more they've sought me out, the more I am convinced that there are holy men and women. So I send blessings, such as they are, to all my priests who constitute the Resistance. Down with the fur and the edicts. And if they like, they're welcome to include me in their prayers. Can't hurt. None of us will free the world of intolerance alone. We need people of God, especially if He isn't here.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I pray daily... for peace.

We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.

Pray and get ready for it. When you are ready, get by yourself, pray for guidance, and finally give the entire matter and everything connected to it to God. Tell God you are giving this person and the entire business to Him, complete in every detail.

I'm not saying God predetermines everything. I'm saying He or She has known all along that things would turn out as they have. God is not surprised. God is all-knowing, not all-controlling. Man does have free will.

I also choose to believe that if I do a thing for the right motive and leave the results up to God, everything will turn out the way it is supposed to. Not necessarily the way I would have chosen, but definitely the way it is supposed to be.

More than seventy studies on intercessory prayer have shown the same nonlocal energetic connection effects as detected in the cheek cell experiment. One example of such a study was conducted by Dr. Randolph Byrd in San Francisco. It showed that patients undergoing heart surgery who were prayed for by groups scattered around the world did significantly better in their recovery than those who were not prayed for by these groups.9

Enjoy when the judgments are in your favor, I suggested, and accept when they are not, but never put your faith in them entirely, because they are subjective, mysterious, and often meaningless things. No judgment can tell you who you are or what you can be, and no judgment is final as long as we are alive and able to put ourselves out there again and again.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.

The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

God gave us orifices, God gave us wounds.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

Only priests are wise enough to fear, rather than covet, the gifts the gods may give.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.