Faith
Quotes
My Soul
is in the Sky
“I
believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do
not KNOW that I am.”
―
Albert Einstein
“My
soul is in the sky.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“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.”
―
Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
“Dance.
Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy
every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment
instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”
―
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Yes,
I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for
causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does
not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come
then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”
―
Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
“You
were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never
make sense.”
―
Rick Warren
“Faith
― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
―
Dan Brown, The da Vinci Code
“Believe
there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself
and never mind the rest.”
―
Beatrix Potter
“About
once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing
need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often,
when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not
one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural
world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract
pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find
meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no
expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?
Depending
on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a
breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with
the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you
from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just
as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the
respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they
have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to
the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of
friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the
chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called
'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and
elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but
it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so.
Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a
human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed
propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Persistence.
Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“There
will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you,
belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all
must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside
you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and
never feel alone.”
―
Shannon Alder
“You
can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“To
one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no
explanation is possible.”
―
St. Thomas Aquinas
“The
chief beauty about time
is
that you cannot waste it in advance.
The
next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as
perfect, as unspoiled,
as
if you had never wasted or misapplied
a
single moment in all your life.
You
can turn over a new leaf every hour
if
you choose.”
―
Arnold Bennett
“God
turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that
you will have two wings to fly, not one”
―
Rumi, The Essential Rumi
“there
is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in
this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is
where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be,
and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him
all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with
impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as
merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.”
―
Khaled Hosseini
“Prejudice,
a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin
where reason ends.”
―
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
“No.
Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost
hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is
dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
―
Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
“I
know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people
became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
―
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
“You
are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is
fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's
going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or
religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because
these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
―
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into
Values
