Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God"

Charles L. Allen, Clergyman

"Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith"

Austin Farrer, Theologian

"The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions, we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words"

Henry Norris Russell, Scientist

"The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains"

William H. O'Connell, Clergyman

"While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God"

James Green Somerville, Writer

"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel, we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"Faith is in the eye of the beholder"

Tilda Swinton, Actress

"I talk to the universe all the time"

Ted Lange, Actor

"I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it"

Ted Lange, Actor

"Yet, through history, gays have always dominated religious life and churches"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West"

John Keegan, Historian

"The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion"

John Keegan, Historian

"The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith"

Ignatius of Loyola, Clergyman

"There is only one theology, but there are many theologians"

Athenagoras I, Clergyman

"We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position"

Peter Akinola, Clergyman

"I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism"

Charles Anthon, Writer

"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long!"

Thomas Monaghan, Soldier

"No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ"

Mark Hopkins, Educator

"That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true"

Simon Greenleaf, Judge

"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track"

Betty Shabazz, Activist

"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen"

Girolamo Savonarola, Clergyman

"My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed"

Francis Asbury, Clergyman

"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world"

Al Green, Musician

"We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, 'cause it's a spiritual fight"

Stephen Baldwin, Actor

"My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words, but that backs up those words with action and results"

Frank R. Wolf, Politician

"The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each other's talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it"

Claudio Hummes

"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"So, with that will, prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul"

Ignatius of Loyola, Clergyman

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