Quotes About Faith

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.