Quotes About Faith

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.