Quotes About Faith

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us.

In many ways the Reformation was born out of the sense of the hopelessness and spiritual powerlessness of sinners.

This teaching is similar to the statement of William Perkins: "The desire for grace is an evidence of grace.

we may patiently pass through this life in afflictions, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other disagreeable circumstances, contented with this single assurance, that our King will never desert us, but will give what we need, until having finished our warfare, we shall be called to the triumph.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. BELIEF

The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

And when through all the town there ran The servants of Your enemy, A woman and a man, Unless the Holy Writings lie, Hurried through the smooth and rough And through the fertile and waste, protecting, till the danger past, With human love.

To me the supreme aim (of "arranging" one's ideas and writing poetry) is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ... The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic: born in sin, you May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.

We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.