Maria Monk Quotes

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Faith is Doubt.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

I have a very strong connection with God, very strong sense of my faith.

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

I have a very strong spiritual base.

Faith is a gift. Some feel like they were never blessed with it, others just casually let it fall away.

The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.

For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?