Quotes on Faith

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.