Quotes About Faith

On the very site 'where the Christian religion in our nation took its rise', he lamented,

place of pilgrimage, and was known as Heavenfield

Soon afterwards the plague had struck the community, killing everyone except for one young boy and the abbot,

in the early fourth century, 350 feet long and able to accommodate around 3,000 worshippers.

Christianity offered

the king not only the promise of future paradise and life everlasting,

The conqueror's only concession was to allow them to be baptized in their final days,

people were reportedly terrified by the vision of the priest that emphasized it was all their own fault.

Bede consoled his readers that the two boys had gone gladly to their deaths, 'assured of their entry into the eternal kingdom'.

all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had now accepted the faith of Christ.

As St Boniface, he has long been regarded as the apostle of Germany,

had remained a Christian.

Boniface urged the king to destroy the graven images he and his people were currently worshipping.

So long as they did it in praise of God, let them eat steak.

And so Wilfrid set out once more for Rome. It was the third time he had made the 1,500-mile journey,

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

Le sacrilège, la seule manière que les impies ont encore d'être dévots.

Il n'y a pas de courage triste. [in Journal sous l'occupation]

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits...

Il n'est pas besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer.

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

Les malheurs n'inspirent jamais confiance, et l'horreur des grands massacres enlaidit jusqu'aux victimes.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers.