Quotes About Faith

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

Where there was life, there was also hope.

Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one's feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father's right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.

To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.

So he writes for contemplative souls, and at a very particular point along their way he wants to take them by the hand, at a crossroad where most halt, perplexed, not knowing how to proceed.

It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...

Sir Helmsley lo accusava di sottoporsi al lavoro solo per amore dell'avventura; ma, benché addolorato per la decisione presa dal figlio, lo rispettava per avervi tenuto fede. «Io stesso sono stato tutto un brillante fallimento», aveva borbottato alla fine della loro discussione; e Guy di rimando, ridendo: «Allora cercherò di essere un tetro successo».

Well—it had all grown out of the other choice she had made when, years ago, she had said: "Thy gods shall not be my gods." And now she but dimly guessed who their gods were. At the moment when her very life depended on her knowing their passwords, holding the clue to their labyrinth, she stood outside the mysterious circle and vainly groped for a way in.

It was in a tiny Venetian church, no more than a chapel, that Lewis Racie's eyes had been unsealed—in the dull-looking little church not even mentioned in the guidebooks.

He had to the full the courage of his lack of convictions.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.

Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.

timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government;

La meditación divina es una poderosa ayuda para engendrar en nosotros un desprecio del mundo y de todas las cosas mundanas

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.