Faith in a Higher Power Quotes

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.

If you believe that there's a being superior to yourself and that will guide you, strengthen you that helps a lot but, you know, you just have to stay the course. You just got to stay in there. You cannot be waffling or taking a poll to see what people think. You have to do what you think is right.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.

The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition

Whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one

This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.