To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

I will keep faith, Walter, she said steadily. I will work

Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried.

My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.