Quotes About Faith

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don't be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

In such situations it is a good idea to divide hope into small bits of reality, not to expect a huge miracle at the end of the road but to wish for the grace of the few feet just ahead.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," it will be enough.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

God is greater than God.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Now, you might say: how can this be? I cannot feel his presence in any way. Listen to this. Sensing his presence is not in your power but in his. He will show himself when it suits him to do so, and he can also remain hidden if that is his wish. This is what Christ meant when he said to Nicodemus: 'The spirit breathes where it will: you hear its voice but do not know where it comes from, or where it is going' (John 3:8).

But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.

We should be able to recognize true and perfect love by whether or not someone has great hope and confidence in God, for there is nothing that testifies more clearly to perfect love than trust.

It is a lie - any talk of God that does not comfort you.

Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.