Quotes About Faith

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

A lot of people see the highs but not the lows. But I've always believed in my ability and that's why I got through my rough patch.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

I live my life - I walk the right path - but I can't be like, 'Oh, I'm scared of this or that.'

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

I've crossed paths with lions. I keep going forward and leave it in God's hands.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

The Lord creates us all in different ways and gives us all different passions and different paths.

We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you're dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there's no doubt about it.