“Faith is knowing you are not alone. It is realizing that God is right ...” — Richelle E. Goodrich Quote

“Faith is knowing you are not alone. It is realizing that God is right at your side. It is understanding that no matter what happens in life, He will be there to help you through it.”

“Work is part of the equation for learning.”

“All you can do is start where you are.”

“Have faith”

“Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?”

“There are many things in this world that we do not know, that we cannot see, that we do not perceive or comprehend. But I have faith in a god who sees and perceives all, who knows and comprehends all. It is God upon whom I rely.”

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

“Poverty is not a demon, it is ignorance”

“Wait a Christian woman called for a Jewish rabbi?”

“Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.”

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”