Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes

I just hope that people realize that our Savior is something that can bring peace.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Little Axe's records are wracked with collective grief. Spectral harmonicas resemble howling wolves; echoes linger like wounds that will never heal; the voices of the living harmonise with the voices of the dead in songs thick with reproach, recrimination and the hunger for redemption.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.