Quotes About Faith

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.