Quotes About Faith

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.