Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

Billy Graham

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

Billy Graham

"Believe me, than in half the creeds"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"I'm a Christian by choice"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith. But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

Heinrich Heine

"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ"

John Calvin, Theologian

John Calvin

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

Emanuel Swedenborg

"I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

Billy Sunday

"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for"

Martin Buber, Philosopher

Martin Buber

"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve"

Lillian Smith, Author

Lillian Smith

"I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"Politics are not the task of a Christian"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

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