Quotes

Do not seek to understand so that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The soul is not where it lives but where it loves.

An unexamined faith is not worth having.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.