Quotes About Faith

Bu Dünya'da güvenebileceÄŸin tek ÅŸey, hiçbir ÅŸeyin ayn? kalaca??na güvenemeyeceÄŸindir. Her ÅŸey deÄŸiÅŸir.

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

Todos quieren ir al cielo pero nadie quiere morir

No somos seres humanos teniendo una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales teniendo una experiencia humana. –Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, filósofo francés

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. —MARK TWAIN

Spiritual growth takes place as we become more and more willing to submit, more and more anxious to learn and carry out the will of him who knows best what to do with us.

When we understand that vacate is a form of the Latin verb meaning "be still," we can understand more fully what scholar Simon Tugwell meant when he said, "God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a while, and let him be God."2

Christianity is grounded in history, not sensation. The earliest believers followed Jesus Christ not because it felt good, but because they discovered the Son's rising was the only reality that could be counted on in a world of constant change.

All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. Don't you believe that God will make you what He created you to be, if you will consent to let Him do it? All you have to do is desire it.

Did not the Christians incessantly talk about walking into the arms of Christ for the causes of Christ, calling for wars in his name?

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

The Nobel laureate Anatole France once wrote, "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." To those who believe our institutions can be better than they are, I say, Dream. Believe. Plan. Act.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.

What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Kad jedna osoba pati od iluzije, to se naziva poreme?enoš?u uma. Kad mnogo ljudi pati od iluzije, to se naziva religijom.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Cuando una persona sufre espejismos, eso se denomina locura. Cuando muchas personas sufren espejismos, se denomina religión.

He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness.

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. The allegory of

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it's just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged.

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.