Quotes About Faith

You do not have enough, therefore you are not enough" is a powerful belief sustaining the market. The faith communities must believe "You are enough, and therefore you have enough." And so must we all.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help."

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

It is a shame that we so quickly lose that ability to believe in things; it limits the opportunities we have to transform ourselves, to save ourselves, for it puts the awful burden of transforming and saving ourselves on ourselves. Once you stop believing, you cannot pray, or make sacrifices or pilgrimages, or light candles. You are stuck with yourself, in a world without miracles.

A me sembra perfetto. Sono proprio contento che mi stia calando la vista, mi sembra sempre tutto perfetto. È la dimostrazione evidente che c'è un Dio». «Cosa?». «Il fatto che ci si appanni la vista man mano che invecchiamo. Altrimenti sarebbe insopportabile, soprattutto per chi è stato bello da giovane».

We believe in what we cannot know or understand. We do not believe in what we know.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

Receive the Body and Blood of Christ very frequently. The sight of a Christian's lips red with the Blood of Christ terrifies the enemy. He immediately recognizes the sign of his own ruin. He cannot stand the instrument of divine victory by which he was taken captive and cast down.

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us,

I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always ready enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism.

no era tanto su lógica aplastante como su fe frustrada: no podía perdonarle a Dios que no existiera.

Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it's not meant to be, isn't a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It's actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus.

When we reach the point where things simply make no sense, when our thinking about God and life no longer line up, when any sense of certainty is gone, and when we can find no reason to trust God but we still do, well that is what trust looks like at its brightest – when all else is dark.