Faith Quotes

"The decreasing of distance between ourselves and God is the whole spiritual life."

"The supernatural alone can be felt and touched as an external force."

"The soul must be broken and reformed to achieve unity with God."

"The soul's distance from God is measured in misconceptions."

"The soul must be starved before it can be nourished."

"Faith is not certainty; it is the courage to act despite uncertainty."

"The infinite is not something I can comprehend, but something that comprehends me."

"Conscience is the call of the infinite."

"Eternity speaks through the Other's face."

"The infinite passes through the finite encounter."

"The trace of God is found in the Other's vulnerability."

"To be called by the Other is to be chosen."

"The infinite commands: be just!"

"The Other's destitution is the true face of God."

"The infinite speaks through the finite Other."

"Redemption begins when we acknowledge our need for the other."

"The divine speaks through the particularity of human experience."

"Faith is trust in the face of ultimate uncertainty."

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation, and the only way to achieve it is through religion."

"I wanted certainty in the kind of way that people want religious faith."

"The person susceptible to religious experience is one who experiences the world as somehow divine."

"Only the Christian knew that the greatest dangers to human freedom come from the abuse of power by those in authority."

"Faith is belief in the absence of belief."

"The relation to the Thou is direct. No system of ideas, no foreknowledge, and no fancy intervene between me and it."

"Real faith means to yield oneself to the unconditional."

"To have faith is to trust not in the answers but in the questions."

"Faith is not belief in propositions but trust in persons."

"The sacred is encountered, not explained."

"Affliction is the surest path to the sacred, if we do not allow it to destroy us."