Unity Quotes - Page 3

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.

Harriette Arnow

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door go back in by the other.

Jane Frances de Chantal

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

Anonymous

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

Loving is half of believing.

A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.

Julius Charles Hare

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

My faith has wavered but has saved me.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Miguel de Unamuno

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt?

Bible

In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Jerzy Lee Stanislaw

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

Saint Augustine

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

Marlene Dietrich

It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.

There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.

Anne Bradstreet

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.

Jacques Cousteau

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

Alfred

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.

In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara De Angelis

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Elizabeth Goudge

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

Teresa of Avila.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

Therese of Lisieux

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Therese of Lisieux

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Terry Tempest Williams

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

John Lancaster Spalding

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.

Major Kira Nerys

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

Saint Clare of Assisi

No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.

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