Quotes in this theme
Faith, Spirituality and Religion
C.S. Lewis
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God.
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C.S. Lewis
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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C.S. Lewis
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
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S. Francisco de Assis
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.
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Stephen Hawking
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.
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S. Francisco de Assis
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
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E.M. Forster
Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. E.M.
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William Burroughs
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.
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D.H. Lawrence
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.
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C.S. Lewis
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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