36 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Faith

Orson Scott Card quotes on faith

90. They are too cruel a god for me to worship anymore

101. Don't even admit that you doubt their religion

131. He is dangerous, the infidel, the anti-Christ, he walks brazenly into places in my heart that I had kept as holy ground, where no one else was ever permitted to stand.

148. I desire [belief] enough to act as if I believed, maybe that's what faith is. Or deliberate insanity.

208. If only we were wiser or better people perhaps the gods would explain the mad, unbearable things they do

254. Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about god, but he hadn't figured it out yet, what god even was. It was like, she wanted to give god credit for every good thing, but when it was bad, then she didn't mention god or had some reason why it was a good thing after all

288. But he held his tongue, because, in the back of his mind, in the deepest corner of his heart, he still had hope that Ender might do what could not be done.

297. You frighten me when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.

299. God made us with death inside, and also with intelligence. We have our seventy years or so - perhaps ninety, with care - in the mountains of GA, a 130 is not unheard of, though I personally believe they are all liars. They would claim to be immortal if they thought they could get away with it. We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time. Surely you're not saying that god had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own bible, Carlotta. Two trees of knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

307. If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.

414. Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

425. Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking

508. Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell

509. Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth' and the words did pierce him, and he understood them, though he could not have put in words what it was he understood. Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. If it feels true to me, then there is something true in it, even if it isn't all true. And if I study it out in my mind, then maybe I can find what parts of it are true, and what parts are false, and - and Alvin realized something else. That all his arguments with thrower came down to this : that if something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that make no sense 'Taleswapper, does that mean that what I don't believe can't be true? 'Truth can never be told as to be understood, and not be believed

520. A woman's wisdom is her gift to women. Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to god

538. Our savior is guard enough for us all Our savior will resurrect us, but I haven't noticed that Christians end up any less dead at the end of life than heathens

582. I have to trust everyone and yet there's no one I can really be sure of You can be sure of me she looked at him, searching his face. I've known you so little time. The others I knew all my life. The others are my own people. You are a stranger, from a strange time and place. I know what they can do, what they will do. I have no idea of what you are or what is in your hands and heart and mind. And yet when you tell me I can be sure of you, I am sure

653. Is there really some balance in the universe? Some scale of justice that will bring her here and find some way to set things to rights?

656. I wasn't a believer' I was raised that way, but when [she] died I decided that was all the proof I needed that god didn't exist or if he did he didn't care about us at all

660. Why you sad about that? She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me

687. [He] said nothing, but nodded to [her] as he shook her hand, as if to say that he understood her grief and approved of the strength of her commitment, even if he didn't share her faith

729. I think god stopped paying attention long ago

779. Is he really a believer? Father thinks so. He says the older you get, the more you believe in god, whatever face he wears

799. She had to forgive him, because Jesus would have. Well, Jesus ended up dead. That was the way it was with all gentle, weak people. And damn few of them got resurrected, either. It was only beneficent power - law, money, prestige - that kept trusting fools alive

800. There's always hope:.even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity

847. God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever

854. Why bother coming up with more excuses when she knew the truth : that god had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart

860. That's fine for you to say. But when does the miracle start? Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them Better than seeing miracles that don't exist You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you? That's where I've always stood

905. Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.

990. Do you realize what you're saying? You're saying, please take me out of heaven, god, and send me to hell

995. They speak in my mind. Like' - and he hesitated before saying the childhood word - 'Angels.

996. You would turn away one who comes teaching the name of god? The wicked can use god's name as well as god How can we ever know, then, unless we try them? Or should we cast away all men who use the name of god, for fear they're blasphemers? What name will god use, then?

1019. They had no use for a god who couldn't save them from everything

1023. I've been wounded and you're using the bloody place to teach me, and if that's what gods are supposed to do, then I wish there were no gods at all

1034. Catholics will see anything that can talk as a baptizable person.

1081. Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. -Children of the Mind