Quotes About Faith

Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traición.

The shadowy side of real life is ignored, and Western Christianity provides us with nothing which can be used to interpret it. Thus the young men of the West are unable to deal with the mixture of light and shadow of which life really consists; they have no way of linking the facts of existence to their preconceived notions of absolutes.

Não acredito em Alá mas senti, já muitas vezes, a força da sua crença nas sombras do palmar de Tamanrasset, no som a dágua correndo, como se fosse um milagre, no oásis de Targhit ou nos azulejos verdes do Alhambra.

O, parinte, ii sopti Breb dupa ce vedenia se stinse, eu am fost solul care am adus o floare curata si am aruncat-o intr-o volbura prihanita.

Cel mai mare sprijin trebuie sa-l asteptam de la Dumnezeu.

Whenever the outside world offers no mercy, an internal symbolic system can become a salvation.

if Christ had returned to preach his message of liberation in the Middle Ages, he would have been crucified again and again by the leaders of that very church whose worldly power was built on his name.

W]hat we call religion is actually the oldest and most ambitious attempt to create order in consciousness. It therefore makes sense that religious rituals would be a profound source of enjoyment.

one's neighbors, and think about God—if these are the things one has decided are worth pursuing. But it is difficult to accomplish any of them unless one has earlier acquired the habit of using solitude

whenever a culture has had a run of good luck and for a while seems indeed to have found a way of controlling the forces of nature. At that point it is logical for it to begin believing that it is a chosen people who need no longer fear any major setback. The

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

The fathers of the Church well understood that infatuation with the pleasures of the flesh could easily drain psychic energy away from other goals.

si Cristo hubiese regresado para predicar su mensaje de liberación en la Edad Media, habría sido crucificado de nuevo por los dirigentes de la misma iglesia cuyo poder mundano se había levantado en su nombre.

a new faith is to capture our imagination, it must be one that will account rationally for the things we know, the things we feel, the things we hope for, and the ones we dread. It must be a system of beliefs that will marshal our psychic energy toward meaningful goals, a system that provides rules for a way of life that can provide flow.

It is precisely because the unknowns are so great and dangerous that we require some manner of faith to choose our path and to give us courage.

true, they abandon faith in everything else they have learned. Deprived of the customary supports that cultural values had given them, they flounder in a morass of anxiety and apathy.

you have to assume that it can be done. If you don't assume that, you won't even try. And I always assume that not only it can be done, but I can do it.

Hanefitai ir krikš?ionys, žydai ir magai tuš?iai jo ieškojo.Žem?je t?ra dvejopi žmon?s. Protingi, kurie neturi tik?jimo, ir tikintieji, kurie neturi proto

Cz?owiek jest niewolnikiem swego serca i zamyka oczy na to, co nie jest dla niego przyjemne, a wierzy w to, na co ma nadziej?.

Cada cual busca en sus creencias un consuelo a las contrariedades y reveses de la vida.