Faith Quotes

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith – as mysterious as faith itself.

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Want of it.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.[Para ter fé em seu próprio caminho, não precisa provar que o caminho dooutro está errado.]

In all your actions, words, and thoughts, be aware that it is possible that you may depart from life at any time. But leaving the human race is nothing to be afraid of, if the gods exist; they would not involve you in anything bad. And if they do not exist or have no concern for human affairs, why should I live in a universe empty of gods and empty of providence? But the gods do exist and have concern for human affairs and have placed it wholly in the power of human beings never to meet what is truly bad. [Ὡς ἤδη δυνατοῦ ὄντος ἐξιέναι τοῦ βίου, οὕτως ἕκαστα ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν καὶ διανοεῖσθαι. τὸ δὲ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἀπελθεῖν, εἰ μὲν θεοὶ εἰσίν, οὐδὲν δεινόν: κακῷ γάρ σε οὐκ ἂν περιβάλοιεν: εἰ δὲ ἤτοι οὐκ εἰσὶν ἢ οὐ μέλει αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀνθρωπείων, τί μοι ζῆν ἐν κόσμῳ κενῷ θεῶν ἢ προνοίας κενῷ; ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰσὶ καὶ μέλει αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀνθρωπείων καὶ τοῖς μὲν κατ̓ ἀλήθειαν κακοῖς ἵνα μὴ περιπίπτῃ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ τὸ πᾶν ἔθεντο.]

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

If there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.[εἴτε θεός, εὖἔχει πάντα˙ εἴτε τὸ εἰκῇ.]

If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.

If I am able to apprehend God objectively, I do not have faith; but because I cannot do this, I must have faith.[Kan jeg objektivt gribe Gud, saa troer jeg ikke, men netop fordi jeg ikke kan det, derfor maa jeg troe.]

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith but the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.[Ich mußte also das Wissen aufheben, um zum Glauben Platz zu bekommen.]

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make us of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, “It is a matter of faith, and above reason.”