Quotes About Faith

That you need God more than anything, you know at all times in your heart. But don't you know also that God needs you—in the fullness of his eternity, you? How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you—for that which is the meaning of your life.

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now—or, as Buber puts it, in the present.

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

The world is not divine sport; it is divine destiny. There is divine meaning in the life of the world; of man, of human persons, of you and of me.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Of course, the Catholics also believed in grace and faith. But they disagreed on how grace and faith were effected and experienced and what part the church to which they all belonged was to play.

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.

Even the most political poem is an act of faith.

Seeking to encourage Collins, Churchill replied with his favourite Boer saying, 'All will come right.' On

Such hope. It breaks your heart.

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies. —Isaiah 30:15

Why do we rush about… looking for God who is here at home with us, if all we want is to be with him?

a remarkably gentle and insightful monk, Theophan, who says, "You must descend from your head to your heart. At present your thoughts of God are in your head. And God Himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in the summer.

In this connection was revealed one of the many verse which refer to the heart as the faculty by which man has sight of supernatural realities. The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But an evil way of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of God's message...