Quotes About Faith

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

One might think one is loving God; the real test is whether it leads to a love of people

This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians!!! . . . The whites have murder'd us, O God! . . . We believe that, for thy glory's sake, Thou wilt deliver us; But that thou may'st effect these things, Thy glory must be sought. —David Walker

I know that when we get out of our own way and let the spirit of love and hope shine through we are a better people.

The black church is quite literally a sounding board for vetting ideas and voicing frustrations so black folk can stay sane in the midst of America's denial of black humanity.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we become living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

If we see ourselves as alienated from God, we have a huge problem. That's exactly what the Abrahamic faiths do to us – they alienate us from who we really are, from our divine spark. Instead of making us search for God inside ourselves, they project God onto an external figure; remote, alien, infinitely high above humanity.

If the world turns to religions of knowledge and enlightenment rather than place faith in dusty books and fanatical prophets, the vast divide between science and religion will be at last be healed. We can enter a Golden Age of human thinking and spirituality

Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.

God does not create the universe. Precisely the reverse is true. The universe creates God.

In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement?

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

God is inside all of us. By venturing into our unconscious, we all have the opportunity to find God at our centre. We can all become God. We have been given a special program – the "God Program" – that allows us to accomplish this transcendent feat. It is this program that underpins all religious feelings, all intuitions about souls and the afterlife.

The kingdom of God is within us. Now go inside yourself and find it!

We are part of God and he part of us. We are a community of gods in the making, a society of the divine. Never let anyone tell you that you are bad, a sinner, weak, unworthy, wretched and depraved, in need of Jesus, Moses or Mohammed. You need no one except yourself. You need no faith. It's knowledge that will deliver you.

We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity's destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself.

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.

Once you get below negative twenty, you purposely don't think. It's like there's no atheists in a foxhole. Same with negative twenty. That's when you do have religion. You do pray. You pray for warmth.

But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.

There were only two sorts of women so perfervid in their devotions: madwomen and saints, nor were the two species entirely distinct.

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them.