Faith Quote by John Updike

I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I wouldn't be where I am without my faith.

— Andy Dalton

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear,…

— Dean Koontz

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness…

— Anonymous

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their…

— Bertrand Russell

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

— Anonymous

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

— Margaret Drabble

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

— Kate Atkinson

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

— Andrew Linzey

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort,…

— Billy Corgan