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Quotes About Faith

God's time isn't the same as hers. God's calendar isn't the one hanging in her kitchen.
~ Abraham Verghese
But God's time isn't the same as hers. God's calendar isn't the one hanging in her kitchen. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. It's pointless chastising herself for not rescuing her mother sooner. Happened is happened, she thinks. The past is unreliable, and only the future is certain, and she must look to it with faith that the pattern will be revealed.
~ Abraham Verghese
The chaos and hurt in God's world are unfathomable mysteries, yet the Bible shows her that there is order beneath. As her father would say, "Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.
~ Abraham Verghese
The God who never interferes with drownings or train wrecks likes to peer in on the human experiment at such moments of reckoning, touching the scene with a little celestial light.
~ Abraham Verghese
God only knows why miscarriages happen. God only knows—but doesn't choose to explain.
~ Abraham Verghese
She will pray, too, but mostly she'll try to hold on to this feeling of stillness. Whether God has spoken or has yet to speak, she's at peace.
~ Abraham Verghese
Well, Koshy Saar may not believe in God, but it's a good thing that God believes in that old man. Why else did he send him into your life?
~ Abraham Verghese
Please understand. This happened before her birth. She was born this way. Nothing you or anyone else did caused it. Understand? This isn't your fault. In Jeremiah, doesn't God say, 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee'?" "He does!" she says, shocked to hear a Bible verse from this worldly man.
~ Abraham Verghese
He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.
~ Abraham Verghese
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." They are far from being all one.
~ Abraham Verghese
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
~ Abu Bakr
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
~ Abu Bakr
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
~ Abu Bakr
God helps those who fear Him.
~ Abu Bakr
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
~ Abu Bakr
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~ Abu Bakr
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
~ Abu Bakr
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
~ Abu Bakr
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
~ Abu Bakr