Faith, Spirituality and Religion

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

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

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.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R.

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.

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,