Quotes About Faith

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.

In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative man.

Genius is religious.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.

their creeds a disease of the intellect.

It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one. The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

A deep man, believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.

As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It