Quotes About Faith

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.