Quotes About Faith

Why are you still a priest?" Eigen asked, not letting the subject go. "My dear girl," Karras said. "I remain a goddamn cleric because in this world one needs something to hide behind. I have chosen this fucking collar. You have chosen mathematics.

To know nor faith, nor love nor law; to beOmnipotent but friendless is to reign.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.

I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities.

to hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;

When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the daybeam is gone, Unchanged, unextinguished its life-spring will shine; When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan, She will smile through the tears of revival on thine.

Toward whatsoever we regard as perfect, undoubtedly, it is no less our duty than it is our nature to press forward; this is the generous enthusiasm which accomplishes not indeed the consummation after which it aspires, but one which approaches it in a degree far nearer than if the whole powers had not been developed by a delusion. It is in politics rather than in religion that faith is meritorious.

Paradise spread forth beyond the shadowy grave

The wilderness has a mysterious tongue Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild, So solemn, so serene, that man may be, But for such faith, with nature reconciled;

If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, a knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Every man forms, as it were, his god from his own character; to the divinity of one of simple habits, no offering would be more acceptable than the happiness of his creatures. He would be incapable of hating or persecuting others for the love of God.

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

cada uno a su casa y Dios a la de todos

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Equality is spiritual

hence the conclusion is frequently implied and often explicitly drawn that the Puritans looked upon philosophy as a sensual indulgence, upon classical authors as contemptible heathens, upon science as a work of the Devil and a hindrance to faith. Neither the friends nor the foes of the Puritans have shown much interest in their intellects, for it has been assumed that the Puritan mind was too weighted down by the load of dogma to be worth considering in and for itself.

Fear will always step in the moment we choose to let faith go.

Heaven has its own doors that open, bringing blessings from God to earth.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.