Quotes on Faith

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?