Faith Quotes

I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquir...

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much...

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that fait...

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do th...

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing mo...

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions d...

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...

The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in....

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. ...

At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of...

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrende...

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy ...

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for ma...

On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white'...

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is t...

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hop...

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came ...

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one...

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question...

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel...

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round an...

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion...

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense i...

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those w...

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally ...

And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowl...

Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the prom...

Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is giv...

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reaso...

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ...

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who kno...

All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slave...

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lif...

In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as muc...

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at a...

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order...

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vi...

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-y...

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it w...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that...

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...

Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, a...

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

The Scholomance was a piece of Shadowhunter history come to life. A cold castle of towers and corrid...

All my life, since I came to the institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in ...

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that Go...

All right, God, say that You are really there. You have put me in this fix. You want to test me. Sup...

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The f...

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black...

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow y...

But if I could just get som ehint, some sign..." Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affe...

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great...

A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed natio...

Just because ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE CAN.

JUST BECAUSE ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE SHOULD (Mrs. Peters to Conner Bailey)

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Reli...

You don’t so much as become an atheist as find out that’s what you are. There’s no moment of convers...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thi...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

I cannot, of course, prove that there is no supervising deity who invigilates my every momentand who...

the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not mer...

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—...

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a chi...

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr...

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In th...

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is ther...

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I ha...

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam o...