What art thou, thou idle ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st more of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious task, young man, and possibly a tragic one.
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don’t grab hold of the water when you swim, if you go stiff and tight in the water you sink. You have to relax.
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
The smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God’s will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.
