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Faith Quotes by John Henry Newman
- The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they…
- With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine…
- It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on…
- What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that…
- Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith…
- Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will…
- Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
- Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.…
- Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
- Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a…
- Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
- We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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