Charles Journet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.

  • Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

  • Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

  • I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  • The needs of the times will teach you what to do.

  • Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  • Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

  • Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  • No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

  • Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.