faith
“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars; the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“Batter my heart, three-person'd God.”
“Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.”
“The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.”
“At the center of religion is love … Everything in our life should be based on love.”
“The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience.”
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it.”
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
“To believe in God is to long for His existence and, further, it is to act as if He existed.”
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
“He who is slow in believing is strong in believing.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who do not.”
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down; and he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”