Alice McDermott Quotes

My principle and my faith is what is driving me from the get-go.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

Faith is important, even if you're not religious. You need to have beliefs in people or things.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.