The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: desire trying Christian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. —Helen Keller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God, but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more. —Peace Pilgrim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —Susan B. Anthony More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time I see a TV evangelist I can't help but think that if God wanted to talk to me through the TV, I think he could get a spot on a major network. —Margot Black More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. —Miguel de Unamuno More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every day people are straying away from the Church and going back to God. —Lenny Bruce More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Christ could certainly not have established the Church, that is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church — with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility — is to be found either in Christ's words or in the conceptions of the men of his time. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the best sense of the word [Jesus] was a radical. . . . His religion has so long been identified with conservatism — often with conservatism of the obstinate and unyielding sort — that it is almost startling for us sometimes to remember that all the conservatism of His own times was against Him, that it was the young, free, restless, sanguine, progressive part of the people who flocked to Him. —Phillips Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. —Clarice Lispector More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?" she inquired. "Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully. —Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: God silence noise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps this quiet yet unquiet waiting is the harbinger of grace, or perhaps it is grace itself. —Franz Kafka, as quoted by Gustav Janouch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email