Faith, Spirituality and Religion
Frederick Douglass
Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
John Donne
I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
Peter de Vries
It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
G. K. Chesterton
When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Samuel Butler
An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
John Bunyan
I am going to my Fathers, and tho’ with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder.