Quotes about Belief

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Is the Bible enough for us? These days I think Jesus himself would say again to those who sit down in melancholy, "It is not here, it is risen. Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has managed to muddle along by himself for six months, am ceasing to believe in the urgent necessity of helping him.

The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.

I think it a splendid saying of Victor Hugo's, "les religions passent, mais Dieu demure" [religions pass away, but God remains];

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.