Quotes About Faith

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

In 531, Tribonian authored a regulation that required that before any trial or hearing could begin, everyone, including litigants and officials, was obliged to swear an oath of Christian faith while placing a hand on a copy of the Gospels…a requirement made easier by another regulation that ordered a copy of the Gospels placed in every courtroom.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

No foundation. All the way down the line.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

if a witch tries to influence a Christian believer with a magic spell, it will often fail to work, simply because the Lord watches over His children carefully. God will not allow the devil

Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified, and are living a pure and holy life free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

These blessed candles of the night.

Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

'Tis mad idolatryTo make the service greater than the god.

There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.

Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.

And He that doth the ravens feed,Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,Be comfort to my age!

O father Abram! what these Christians are,Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspectThe thoughts of others.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,To follow still the changes of the moonWith fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubtIs once to be resolved.

If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.