Quotes About Faith

wasn't it better to feel that when that chaos engulfed you, there was a benevolent God ready to help you through, rather than the emptiness of an indifferent universe?

Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

We cannot understand, but that doesn't mean our just and loving God doesn't have His reasons. If we have faith, every experience we undergo in life, good or bad, will bring us closer to Him.

Yes, it is so hard to dream and live and not to find what we want. So much has been given to us, but somehow not what we want. There is always something missing, always something we could have had, should have had. We do not understand why God denies us these things; why He is deaf to our prayers.

There are several ways of looking at this. You could say that mankind is getting smarter, removing itself from superstition and irrationality. Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

She had been brought up to believe in God. To believe in people. To believe that evil didn't really exist, that it was simply an absence of good, the way darkness is an absence of light.

My Torah is also the greatest,' said the rav, 'but those who are mean-spirited have yet to use it.

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to God in love and thanks, rather than to curse Him and one's fate, was the ultimate choice of any human creature, and perhaps the ultimate expression of one's humanity.

He who gives life, nourishes life. He listens, this I can tell you. Whatever happens, He's listening. He doesn't always answer right away. He doesn't always say yes. But He's listening. This much I promise you.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Don't fear, I am with you.

Fiancé is such a cruel word. It shouldn't be. It should be beautiful. A bond, a promise. That's what the word means, after all. I looked it up once. Fiancé: from the French word 'fiance,' meaning, 'to trust.

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.

History is a myth men want to believe.

Force cannot organize anything.In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit by which I mean the civil and religious institutions of a nation. Napoleon Bonaparte.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.