Quotes about Belief

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

You know, son, God will give you what you choose. And if you think about that real hard, it'll scare you to death. I don't think you're ready to suffer the consequences of those choices.

God wouldn't exist just because she forced herself to believe, any more than Cade would be all right just because she wanted him to be.

Believing in God had to do with a system of convictions, deep faith, things that her parents and her sister and Jonathan had, things that had never come easily to Blair.

God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.

Maybe God was about to show him what he was made of.

she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did?

He was bitter about many things, but not about God. He still prayed constantly. Still went to church. Still reminded her that God loved her and was watching.

It wouldn't be worth going on." The words caught in her throat, and tears sprang to her eyes. "I know it all sounds far-fetched. I've thought that too. That my mistakes … and there are an awful lot of them … couldn't possibly be erased clean. That Jesus couldn't possibly forgive them. But I think that's the whole point of why he came.

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said that all people believe in a god—whether it's the god of hopelessness or the god of circumstances or the god of ourselves or the god of some other person. It took me a long time to figure out what my god was.