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Faith Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the woods we return to reason and faith.
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
- The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
- It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.
- The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
- Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to…
- It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not…
- Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why…
- A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
- Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
- A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to…
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
- God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I…
- Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter,…
- Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
- This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets…
- God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
- The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- 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
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine