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Faith Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
- The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who…
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity…
- A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the…
- My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another.…
- The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
- I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
- When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He…
- Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
- The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when…
More Faith Quotes
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine