Quotes About Faith

I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

I'm perfectly fine with Pacquiao the Christian wanting to separate Mayweather from his senses.

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.

The exorcisms I performed and conducted mainly focus on the Catholic ways.

I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Jesus died when he was 33, and when I was 33, I was coming out of a failed marriage and was in a really low point in my life because I was really sad about that. God healed me so much during that period. So I loved that year because I leaned on God, and then, as a result, I started checking things off my bucket list.

Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Of course I see a future with Varun. I don't get into things if they are not permanent at all.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.