Quotes About Faith

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith.

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

Human problems are neither exactly definable, nor remotely solvable. He who expects Christianity to solve them has ceased to be a Christian.

Our last hope lies in the injustice of God.

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.

That Christianity may not solve social problems is no reason to commit apostasy except for those who forget that it never promised to solve them.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.

The word "humanity" in the mouth of a Catholic is a sign of apostasy, in the unbeliever's a sign of coming bloodbaths.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

The modern clergy declare that Christianity seeks to solve earthly problems—thereby confusing it with utopia.

Die Versuchung des Paganismus ist nicht die Immortalität, sondern der Moral. Ein ungläubiger Heide hat die Ethik erfunden.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

To avenge Nietzsche's attacks on his disciples, Christ ironically prepared to create the Nietzscheans.

Modern man searches first of all for a religion that denies Grace.

Serenity is the fruit of uncertainty freely accepted.

All science feeds on the convictions that it strangles.

Apologetics should mix skepticism and poetry. Skepticism to strangle idols, poetry to seduce souls.

By embracing the "modern mentality," Christianity became a doctrine which it is not easy to respect, nor interesting to do so.