faith

"[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions."

"Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys."

"There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower."

"I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong."

"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."

"What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?"

"Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire."

"What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."

"You have as much laughter as you have faith."

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."

"The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it."

"Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God."

"To the knights of faith nobody believes."

"Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves."

"The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved."

"Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you."

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see."

"...and when is enough proof enough?"