Quotes About Faith

And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life well or ill.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Si se tratara de un problema rigurosamente técnico, sin interferencias ideológicas, hasta el perfecto idiota terminaría aceptando como evidencia que el modelo liberal rinde mejores resultados. Pero la ideología, como las religiones, se alimenta de dogmas de fe

Harapan adalah tiang yang menyangga dunia.

In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.

God's forgiven me. My wife's forgiven me. The department's forgiven me."

When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener.

God pays, but not weekly wages.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek—the finding part is up to God.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Greek statesmen, if entrusted with a single talent, though protected by ten checking-clerks, as many seals and twice as many witnesses, yet cannot be induced to keep faith; whereas among the Romans, in their magistracies and embassies, men have the handling of a great amount of money, and yet from pure respect for their oath keep their faith intact.

More worship the rising than the setting sun.

From this perspective, we can say that genuine faith is simply confidence and trust in ourselves, in our own intelligence and understanding, which then extends to the path we're traveling.

This emptiness, it turned out, was a revolutionary discovery, full of possibilities to free me from my lifelong blind faith in realism, which suddenly seemed so naïve and simpleminded.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.