Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

I have a very strong connection with God, very strong sense of my faith.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I have a very strong spiritual base.

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

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

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

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I believed in God my whole life.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.