Quotes About Faith

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

The former slaves preferred to focus on feeling the power of God's loves, in the tradition of the invisible institution of their parents and grandparents.

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.

Sometimes it feels as though one is surely committing spiritual suicide. It feels that all that is best in one's life is being eroded and lost. But still go on. This is faith.

judgement has been postponed so that the people of God might witness to God's kingdom and all might repent and enter the kingdom of God.

Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination drew harsh criticism from the pulpit. Clergymen denounced the doctor for having put himself above God. Only the Almighty, they said, sends illness and only the Almighty cures it. Vaccination, critics charged, was "a diabolical operation," and its inventor was "flying in the face of Providence

White Christians often explained the disaster in a time-honored way: it was God's punishment of humanity for its sings. To the seven deadly sins--anger, greed, lust, envy, pride, laziness, gluttony--they added an eighth sin: 'worshiping science.

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said, the LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. —Judges 6:12

If the whole National Guard of New Jersey comes here, with a truckload of shooting-warrants, they aren't going to get Laddie. I promise you that. I don't quite know how we are going to prevent it. But we're going to. That's a pledge. So you're not to worry.