Jim Wallis Quotes

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

Faith is important, even if you're not religious. You need to have beliefs in people or things.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

Believe, don’t fear, believe.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

You have to walk and believe that you can find the light.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing.

I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.