Quotes About Faith

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.

Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.

Those who wear out in faith and energy, and take to easy chairs and soft living;

The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival.

Perhaps that is the only way that true love can work, when it is prepared for and embraced without thought, without choice.

Whoever the searchlights catch, Whatever the loudspeakers blare, We are not to despair.

Faith makes many of the mountains which it has to remove

after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" W.B. Yeats - from 'The Second Coming

Dog' is 'God' spelled backward; you know that. That's why you're here, to help the nuns do God's work.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

When were the people coming back? Where was my boy? Now that I'd found the boy and figured out that my job was to be near him, how could he go away and leave me? When I'd gotten myself out of the big yard and gone into the world, looking for what I needed, I'd never imagined this. Would I be alone forever?