Faith, Spirituality and Religion

Wilt Thou not take the doubt of Thy children whom the time commands to try all things in the place of the unquestioning faith of earlier generations?

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

If thou should never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins.

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

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

 

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. E.M.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S.

 

One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace In sleep, and sink in good oblivion, And in the morning wake like a new-opened flower Then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.