Quotes About Faith

the saint of lost things, and lost causes too

Trust the good God, do not be afraid, and soon your troubles will be over and you will be once more in your mother's arms.

Marvel not," she said. "God clears the way for me. I was born for this.

To children, especially religious little ones, Heaven is always very near, and that one of its denizens should come to them does not seem so improbable as it does to mature minds.

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

I suppose I also have a fondness for Cities because it was my first published novel - writing it got me over what had, up until that time, seemed like an insurmountable hurdle - the writing and completion of a novel. Oh, I'd begun several novels over the years, but never had the staying power or the faith in my own work to finish one.

The soul can't breathe without hope. Torture is to keep living after your soul has died.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Wherever this idea, that the religious predicates are only anthropomorphisms, has taken possession of man, there has doubt, has unbelief, obtained mastery of faith.

Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith, therefore, is miracle; … To faith nothing is impossible, and miracle only gives actuality to this omnipotence of faith[.]

He who makes God act humanly, declares human activity to be divine[.]

God does not negative himself in the Incarnation, but he shows himself as that which he is, as a human being.

Faith does not limit itself by the idea of a world, a universe, a necessity.

Love determined God to the renunciation of his divinity.

Der Religion ist nur das Heilige wahr, der Philosophie ist nur das Wahre heilig.

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]

Faith discriminates thus: This is true, that is false. And it claims truth to itself alone. Faith has for its object a definite, specific truth … One thing alone is truth, … God … ; all other gods are vain idols.

Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, … [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the blessed God. God … wills that I shall be blest; but that is my will also: … God's love for me [is] nothing else than my own self-love deified.

Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God than duties towards man[.]

Faith in the real annihilation of the world - … a world antagonistic to the wishes of the Christian is therefore a phenomenon belonging to the inmost essence of Christianity[.]

F]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in order to enhance the self-complacency of triumphant faith. Hell sweetens the joys of happy believers.

God … has no more significance for religion than a fundamental general principle has for … science[.]