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Faith Quotes by Graham Greene

13 Faith quotes by Graham Greene

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Graham Greene’s take on faith carries the weight of his narrative craft, each of the thirteen lines hinting at the moral complexities he explored in fiction. This modest set offers a nuanced entry into his contemplative side, where belief meets the shadows of human experience.

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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

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“Perhaps as sects multiply, belief diminishes.”

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or…

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“When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet…

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Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere…

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“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or…

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“God loves you, they say in the churches, God is everything. People who believe that don't need admiration, they don't need to…

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“That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only…

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“You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian,…

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“He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the…

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“Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a…

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“The woman had gone down on her knees and was shuffling slowly across the cruel ground towards the group of crosses: the…

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“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a…

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“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their…

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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though…

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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't…

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Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

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“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…

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“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the…

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“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he…

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

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“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.”

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