"Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith."

"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

"Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp."

"When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith"

"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."

"A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things."

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession."

"We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession"

"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

"If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself."

"I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised."

"They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting."

"There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows."

"I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it."

"Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical."

"Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

"An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be."

"Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do."

"But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired"

"Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults."

"The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth."