Quotes by Faith You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith evil Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died. C. S. Lewis christian faith god Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. C. S. Lewis important wisdom faith God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. C. S. Lewis faith perfect men Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer. C. S. Lewis real faith god Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith years You can't know, you can only believe - or not. C. S. Lewis faith knows believe Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. C. S. Lewis faith believe people It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith religion It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith mean I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith country There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. C. S. Lewis inspiration spiritual faith The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body. C. S. Lewis inspiration faith baby Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan. Calvin Coolidge faith men life Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven. Camillus de Lellis inspiration faith men If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important Carl Jung powerful soul faith The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. Carl Jung majority patient faith You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe Carl Sagan atheist faith death Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors. Carl Sandburg faith men war If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself. Carlo Borromeo inspiration faith wind «1011121314151617181920»
