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Faith Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
- The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
- God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
- We do not exist for ourselves.
- Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
- Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.
- A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
- Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our…
- Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities…
- Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above…
- You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it's all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and…
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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