Quotes About Faith

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

One needs the inner strength which comes with the conscious presence of a personal God. If those who are thus fortified sometimes yield to temptation, how helpless and hopeless must those be who rely upon their own strength alone!

To every created thing God has given a tongue that proclaims a future life.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

Why should the Bible, which the centuries have been unable to shake, be discarded for scientific works that have to be corrected and revised every few years?

And on the morning of July 18, an eight-year-old girl living in Bath chose to awaken her aunt, a devout believer in the prophecy, by screaming "Aunt, Aunt, the World's at an end!" The words so startled the poor woman that she fell into a coma, and remained insensate throughout the following day.

Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.

God never promised us an easy life. He never promised that we wouldn't suffer, that we wouldn't feel despair and loneliness and confusion and desperation. What he did promise was that in our suffering we would never be alone. And though we may sometimes make ourselves blind and deaf to his presence he is beside us and around us and within us always. We are never separated from his love.

It seems to me, Buck, that if you can find peace in your heart, God's not far away.

Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.

Me, I love this land, the work. Never was a churchgoer. God all penned up under a roof? I don't think so. Ask me, God's right here. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. In you and me, too. It's all connected and it's all God. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful tender land.

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.

Even in the darkest night it's still within our power to hold to faith. We can still embrace hope. And although we may ourselves feel unloved we can still stand steadfast in our love for others and for God. All this is in our control. God gave us these gifts and he does not take them back. It is we who choose to discard them.

When I pray, Odie, I never pray for perfection. I pray for forgiveness, because it's the one prayer I know will always be answered.