“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”
More from Alice Walker on Faith
“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
John Piper
27 quotes“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
John Calvin
21 quotes“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”