Joseph Heller Quotes

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

I don't believe in miracles.

Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.

Miracles exist - you just have to believe it.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

I've said that before: I believe in God. With God, anything is possible.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

We know little of the things for which we pray.

I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

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 as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.