Quotes About Faith

a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

Color these fish. Cut them out. Punch a hole in the top of each fish. Put a ribbon through all the holes. Tie these fish together. Now read what is written on these fish: Jesus is a friend. Jesus gathers friends. I am a friend of Jesus.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

A melhor maneira para seguir não acreditando em nada é nos cercarmos de padres e freiras que acreditam demais.

Não sei explicar mas o que quero dizer é que acreditar no homem não me deixa tão feliz como acreditar nessas histórias absurdas que os homens contam.

Um dia qualquer, no meio de um pensamento, de uma palavra, você descobrirá de repente esta coisa extraordinária: cresci! O que não vai impedir que o caso ou Deus, dê a isto o nome que quiser, de vez em quando a governe como uma casca de noz no meio do mar. Mas reagirá de modo diferente, está compreendendo?

I don't really trust a sane person.

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

Christ's sympathies are broader and His love is larger than we think.... We hedge him round with our poor creeds, and shut Him up in our little churches, and think He works only in our appointed ways. He breaks over the barriers we put about him, and carries on His work of love in hearts that we think are beyond all reach of Him or us. We cannot tell our brother how to find the light. The light will find him.

My faith in God rests on my faith in Christ as God manifest in the flesh -- not as God and man, but as God in man.

He who would see God must use the faculty with which God is seen; and if he would do this, he must let men who are rich in the faculty which perceives the invisible, — which looks not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen and are eternal, — guide, teach, inspire him.

The spirit which in the modern Church has sometimes sought to found Christian faith on signs and wonders appears to me to be almost as much one of unbelief as the spirit which outside the Church denies the miraculous altogether.

A golden thread, woven into the Old Testament history, renders the various lives whose stories it recounts only different phases of the same experience. That golden thread is faith.

Brevity is the soul of the prayer-meeting.

I hear men talk as though prayer were of no avail unless we believe beforehand with assurance that we were going to receive all for which we asked. It is not true. We are not heard for our much asking, nor for much our believing, but for God's great mercy's sake.

I am not afraid to trust myself, my friends, or the heathen in the hands of him whose mercy endureth forever.

If the consciousness of God is possible to all healthful souls, why are so many men and women without this consciousness? There are men and women, not a few, who do not want God. They would be very glad to have God if he were always on their side; glad to have God if he would always do what they want him to do. But a supreme will ... a masterful will, a will to which they must conform, they do not want.

But the heart finds no refuge in an Infinite and an Eternal Energy from which all things proceed. That refuge is found only in the faith that God has entered a human life, taken the helm, ruled heart and hand and tongue, written in terms of human experience the biography of God in history, revealed in the teaching of Christ the truth of God, in the life of Christ the character of God, in the passion of Christ the suffering of God.

If I had only life's book to read ... I should not believe in a God of love. I should turn Persian, and believe in two gods, one of love and good-will, one of hate and malice.

God is constantly better than his promise. He does not limit Himself by our expectations.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

The Bible is the casket which contains the image of my Master.

Men who do want God, who are really in earnest to find God, who do not live in the outward world altogether, but have some vision of the inner, who do not stop at the creed or the church or the Book, who do not call God to an account for the way in which he conducts himself, still fail to find God because they want God only for what God will bring to them.

No man will find God unless he seeks after God for God's own sake, loves him for himself, and not for the gifts which he may bestow.