Quotes About Faith

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.