Alvar N. C. de Vaca Quotes

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Some people were breaking in to get food for their families. They were in survivor mode. Don’t confuse that with a guy carting off a 64 inch television set and looting…. The test is take the mirror and put it in front of your face and ask what would you do.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

I do not see my election of 1976 or my defeat in 1980 in the narrow focus of God's will for this specific event. I believe He has a purpose for individual lives as well as for the sweep of human events. He works out those purposes in ways far beyond our understanding. I was His in 1976. I am His in 1980. Now, let's go eat supper.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests—who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, sometimes invents them.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

Rats desert a sinking ship.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

To choose love and jump in not knowing, with a lot of unknowns, is a brave act.

Every time I found an egg to eat, or when I survived a storm in which trees were collapsing all around me, I felt that it was Providence. I don't need to believe - I know.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

In the end, you have to just pull the trigger. Trust the car, trust the brakes, just go.

You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody.

May God never abandon me.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.