God & Faith Quotes — page 4

Nor does it matter, whether one or two Isaiahs wrote the book which bears that Prophet's name; the Church, without settling this point, pronounces it inspired in respect of faith and morals, both Isaiahs being inspired; and, if this be …

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to …

My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

What is it to make progress in religion? Progress is not only action but moving onward. A door turning upon its hinges is in a state of motion, but it never advances. A chariot moving upon wheels is not only in motion, but goes onward. The …

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

"I shall be thy name in Christ as I emerge through these walls in vain."

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

I tell you, Mr. Hunsden, you are a more unpractical man than I am an unpractical woman, for you don't acknowledge what really exists; you want to annihilate individual patriotism and national greatness as an atheist would annihilate God …

Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

Yea! as I loath, I lust; I prostitute myself to thee, perversely prurient - Wilt thou not make this night the nameless nuptial, the Devil thy Lord and mine at Our Black Mass?

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening — still all is Beauty!

To work a wonder, God would have her shown At once a bud and yet a rose full-blown.

Nothing is so fatal to Religion as indifference which is, at least, half Infidelity.

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

[B]y awakening the Heroic that slumbers in every heart, can any Religion gain followers.

When he abandoned all attempt to save himself, Jesus Christ saved him. This was all he knew about it. And more, this was all there was about it.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

... be ever reading, exhorting, and teaching in God's word, that the people of God run not unto other doctrines ...