faith

"But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."

"I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles."

"We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said"

"Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing."

"Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it."

"All religions are based on obsolete terminology."

"Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason."

"A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for."

"Belief creates the actual fact."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest."

"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful."

"As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists."

"Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set."

"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

"God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside."