Quotes About Faith

Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.

Mom recognizes only two sources of wisdom -- the bible and Hallmark.

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

God is the greatest source of love a person can ever have.

He broke down the .38, cleaned it, reassembled it. He made a list: feed, flour, ammunition, soap, beef, candles, faith, hope, charity.

At last she came to the old French houses around St. Louis Cathedral, and sat down on the steps of the cathedral and put herself in the hands of God. Any God, even a Catholic one.

The Lord sends to each of us some chastisement. Some burden, so that we may turn to him.

Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.

In January 1973, Murray lost Barlow to cancer. By September, she had resigned from Brandeis University and entered the General Theological Seminary. The year after she earned her Master of Divinity degree, she became the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest.

Take a leap of faith, and build your wings down.

She felt as though she were a statue of ashes—bitter, useless, damned—like the salt statues of Gomorrah. For she was guilty. Those who love God, and by Him are abandoned in the dark of night, are guilty, because they are abandoned.

Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

Live as if you have faith," she said, "and faith shall be given to you.

In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

Tania," he whispers, "promise me you won't forget me when I die." "You won't die, soldier," she says. "You won't die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you're done, I will be waiting for you." She is sobbing. "Whenever you're done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you.

All good things come to those who wait.

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that's just so far," he added with a smile.

Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked. O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.

She held the money to her chest and tried to fathom Alexander's heart. He was the man who, a few meters away from freedom, from America , had chosen to turn his back on his lifelong drea. Feel one way. Behave one way, too. Alexander may have hoped for America , but he believed more in him-self. And he loved Tatiana most of all. Alexander knew who he was. He was a man who kept his word. And he had given it to Dimitri.

Where your treasure is, there your hear will be also