“Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers”
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“Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers”
“If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness”
“Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth”
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it ”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven”
“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man”
“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place”
“There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing”
“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth”
“I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found”
“What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith”
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further”
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love”