Quotes About Faith

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

All outward actions are worthless while our hearts be not right with God.

Viver de acordo com os princípios bíblicos hoje requer que as mulheres sejam ousadas o suficiente para permanecer firmes contra filosofias e fortalezas que buscam destruir a Palavra de Deus e sua autoridade.

drip and fling and pour color onto the glass. Then I push the paint around. You have to have some faith. If it looks like nothing, if you think you've destroyed what might have been a good painting, keep at it. If you've scraped all but a few streaks away, chances are those streaks will suggest something else. Don't give up. Don't be afraid of the mess.

Good things happen slowly, said a doctor in the ICU months ago, and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today. Recovery is a long, slow process. There are good days and bad days for both of us.

Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

In Jewish tradition, dying in one's sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.

Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

G0d is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.

Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may

For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.