Henry Miller Quotes

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

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.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

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

Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

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

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.

We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.