Faith, Spirituality and Religion

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.

After it, follow it,

 

One God, one law, one element,

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt,

 

More things are wrought by prayer

 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

 

The Church’s one foundation

 

Often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.

 

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

 

The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

 

If we find the answer to that [why it is that we and the universe exist], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

 

Praised be You, my Lord, with all your creatures,

 

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!

 

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!

 

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

 

I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

 

I am Merlin Who follow the Gleam.

 

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.

 

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

 

More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

 

I found Him in the shining of the stars, I mark’d Him in the flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not.

 

Man’s word is God in man.

 

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.