Quotes About Faith

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:The old order changeth, yielding place to new;And God fulfills himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.

Man's word is God in man.

Believing where we cannot prove.

And o'er the hills and far awayBeyond their utmost purple rim,Beyond the night, across the day,Through all the world she followed him.

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

The history of socialistic ventures, shows that ordinary men are seldom capable of pure ideal altruism for any considerable time together, and that the exceptions are to be found only when masterful fervour of a small band of religious enthusiasts makes material concerns to count for nothing in comparison with the higher faith.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.