Faith Quotes

"Faith is not blind belief; it is the courage to trust what you cannot yet see."

"If all the people who believe in immortality were to disappear, it would be no loss to the world."

"Faith is most needed when evidence is least available."

"Faith is trust in the ultimate intelligibility of existence."

"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

"Grace fills empty spaces, but it cannot enter a space that is occupied."

"Faith is not belief but presence."

"The star of redemption shines only in the night of ignorance."

"God is not a concept but a reality that calls to us."

"Faith is not certainty but commitment."

"Faith is not opposed to reason; it is what allows us to commit ourselves to shared meanings and practices."

"Faith in others is what makes genuine community possible."

"Faith is not the absence of doubt but the choice to believe despite it."

"Faith without action is merely wishful thinking."

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

"One cannot take the I-Thou relation with the whole of being to heart without recognizing the presence of the mystery."

"Hasidism is not a doctrine but a life."

"The purpose of religion is not to put the world on a firm metaphysical basis, but to call for the redemption of the actual world in which we live."

"God cannot be caught by any formula; he cannot be expressed in ideas."

"The more powerful and vital religion is, the more definitely it tends to supersede theologizing about God."

"True responsiveness to God means responsiveness to man, to what is human in man."

"You cannot by any effort make the eternal your object, you can only lift toward it."

"Real faith does not mean the acceptance of a creed, but that one's whole being should be in tune with the eternal."

"The gates of the eternal are open for all who seek."

"The eternal Thou can by its very nature not become It."

"The redemption of the world is only possible when we see each other as Thou."

"Faith is not what we believe but how we live."

"In the dialogue between man and God, both are called to respond."

"The sacred is found in the ordinary meeting between persons."

"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."