James Freeman Clarke: Quotes about faith

James Freeman Clarke was American theologian and writer. Explore interesting quotes on faith.
James Freeman Clarke: 30 quotes1 like

“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows."”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.

“We must be something in order to do something, but we must also do something in order to be something. The best rule, I think, is this: If we find it hard to do good, then let us try to be good. If, on the other hand, we find it hard to be good, then let us try to do good. Being leads to doing, doing leads to being. Yet below both as their common root is faith, — faith in God, in man, in ourselves, in the eternal superiority of right over wrong, truth over error, good over evil, love over all selfishness and all sin.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.

“As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 328.

“In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to "redeem the time" which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.”

James Freeman Clarke

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 583.