Quotes About Faith

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

Men are idol factories.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.