Quotes about Belief

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?