Quotes of Faith

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

To get into the core of God at His greatest, one must first get into the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself.
Johannes Eckhard (1260-1327)

Faith is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy what we believe.
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

...I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.
St. Anselm of Canterbury (1034-1109)

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey (1918-1990)

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and eyes?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Living faith is a rock with roots.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Faith and doubt, both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966)

Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper (1731-1800)

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide (1869-1951)

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.  Malcom Muggeridge (1903-1990)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry E. Fosdick (1878-1969)

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea,
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1992)

... I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God; I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need ... I live more simply now, and with more peace.
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957)

It is difficult to believe in God, not because he is so far off, but because he is so near.
William Hale White (1831-1913)

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.
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How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention. It is the actions of men and not their sentiments which make history.
Norman Mailer