Quotes About Faith

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

All men have need of the gods.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.