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Quotes About Faith

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
~ Anne Lamott
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
~ Anne Lamott
I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.
~ Anne Lamott
The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.
~ Anne Nicol Gaylor
If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?
~ Anne Provoost
In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
~ Anne Rice
God is a God of Lovingkindness.
~ Anne Roiphe
I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
~ Anne Sexton
There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.
~ Anne Sexton
Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
~ Anne Sexton
I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
~ Anne Sexton
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
~ Anne Sexton
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.
~ Anne Sexton
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
~ Anne Sexton
The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
~ Anne Sexton
I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.
~ Anne Sexton
I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
~ Anne Tyler
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
~ Annie Dillard
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
~ Antonia Fraser
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
~ Antonio Machado
I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.
~ Antonio Tarver
I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
~ Ariel Dorfman
I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.
~ Armistead Maupin