Quotes About Faith

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from him.

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

But God is never cruel.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.