Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?