Quotes about Faith
Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.
— John Updike
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.
— John Updike
The soul needs something extra, a place outside matter where it can stand. The Bible—think of it as the primer of a language whereby we can talk to one another about what matters to us most. It is our starting point, not the end point.
— John Updike
Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.
— John Updike
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.
— John Updike
Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.
— John Updike
The thought of these people having the bold idea of leaving their homes to come here and pray pleases and reassures Rabbit, and moves him to close his own eyes and bow his head with a movement so tiny that Ruth won't notice. Help me, Christ. Forgive me. Take me down the way. Bless Ruth, Janice, Nelson, my mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Springer, and the unborn baby. Forgive Tothero and all the others. Amen.
— John Updike
Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch
— John Updike
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.
— John Wooden
Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.
— John Wooden
You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.
— John Wooden
Your faith, whatever it may be, is the greatest shelter of all.
— John Wooden