Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

Douglas William Jerrold

"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

Madonna Ciccone

"It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible"

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"The priesthood is not simply "office" but sacrament: God makes use of us poor men in order to be, through us, present to all men and women, and to act in their favour"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

Pope Benedict XVI

"Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

Jerry Falwell

"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Christianity made us think there's one heaven"

Patti Smith, Musician

"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. Religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need"

Harvey Cox, Theologian

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

Dwight L. Moody

"No man can resolve himself into Heaven"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

Dwight L. Moody

"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"He who is not impressed by sound advice lacks faith"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

George Whitefield

"Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

George Whitefield

"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends"

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Educator

"The principle part of faith is patience"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"

Charles de Lint, Writer

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