Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"In the latter case, life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon"

Horace Walpole, Author

"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death"

Henry Reed, Poet

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness, nothing comes to birth, and without light, nothing flowers"

May Sarton, Poet

"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru, none can cross over to the other shore"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"With participation in politics so low at the moment, I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced"

D. Elton Trueblood, Educator

"It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness"

Henry Reed, Poet

"If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space"

Henry Reed, Poet

"We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas"

Henry Reed, Poet

"I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"In principle, the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Act, and God will act"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"The church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel"

Pope Francis, Pope

"I'm not really religious, but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

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