Quotes About Faith

God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).

God and the imagination are one.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

The dry eucalyptus seeks god in the rainy cloud. Professor Eucalyptus of New Haven seeks him In New Haven.

The death of one god is the death of all.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly." ? Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

Almost all religions are built on faith—rather 'blind' faith it would seem. But in Buddhism emphasis is laid on 'seeing', knowing, understanding, and not on faith, or belief.

It is always seeing through knowledge or wisdom (ñ??a-dassana), and not believing through faith.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

human redemption was accomplished through Jesus's death and resurrection.

The disciple is one who in every area of His life determines from the Bible what is right and lives it consistently rather than allowing circumstances to shape his conduct.

Develop convictions from your understanding of revelation, but take them no further; do not make absolute what the Bible dos not make absolute.

How do you demonstrate a love for God and others in the heat of a contract negotiation in which you perceive the other party to be unreasonable? The Bible gives you no clear-cut answer. God designed the ambiguity in which you are forced to live in order to keep you trusting in Him.

To the degree that you know what God's expectations of you look like, you do not need Him. Seeking to apply positive commandments forces you into a posture of dependence upon God, which is right where He wants you.

When people observe that your life is in harmony with the message, they may not believe, but they know in their conscience that they have met truth.

This does not mean, however, that you will not stand before the judgment bar of God and give an account for how you lived the life God gave you. He will remember every thought, motive, word, and deed in your life, and you will be judged accordingly. Your relationship with Him will not be under consideration, but your eternal fruit will.