Top 84 Faith Poetry Quotes
#1. Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.
Theodore T. Munger
#2. A nation established under God
A nation that will only win
if we stand together
April Nichole
#3. You are my strength when I am weak
You are my shield when I am hurting
Whatever you say unto me Lord
I will do
April Nichole
#5. Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#6. I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
Salman Rushdie
#11. Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born
Lord, your love is amazing
April Nichole
#12. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley
In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.
Allama Iqbal
#14. To be held in his arms
I long for that day
The da that I get to see
more wonderful things
April Nichole
#15. Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!
Deborah Brodie
#16. Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith.
Ariel Gore
#17. I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
John Keats
#18. Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ...
Muse
#19. Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you.
Franz Wright
#20. I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.
Philip Guston
#21. She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than,
many put together,
whole day long.
Her heart misfit,
a little chipped.
And she likes to,
call it once broken,
but now stitched.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#22. Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
Neil Young
#23. Letting go
I can have a firm foundation
To honor you
And hold you in my heart
April Nichole
#25. I am a convinced believer that nothing is "as it is", but it is something that "can become", or we can make out of, if we put faith in our inner resources and feelings to bring the right impetus to the driving wheels of our lives' mechanism. (Soar)
Soar
#26. When I stand strong in you
I can look beyond the clouds
With your words
The sun will rise again
April Nichole
#27. hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#28. Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.
Patrick White
#29. To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.
Lucy Larcom
#30. may my faith always be
at the end of the day
like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.
Sanober Khan
#31. These hands will never go away
they will scoop you up at anytime
anytime that you want to be loved
April Nichole
#32. I can look beyond the clouds
to feel your love
the sun will rise again
to end the darkness
April Nichole
#33. Today I want to leave the world
I want to leave the pain
Leave the heartache
I know where it is going
I want to see my Savior
April Nichole
#34. We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
Emily Dickinson
#35. Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.
Peter Block
#36. Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
#37. Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard
Criss Jami
#38. Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
Aberjhani
#40. I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey
#41. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#42. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
Christian Wiman
#43. Look upward to him
Look upward on our goal
Keep your eyes on him
Look upward to him
April Nichole
#44. I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?
Dejan Stojanovic
#45. Gratitude
... here at home our faith dwindles
political division
causes tensions to kindle -
we should never forget
who stands at the door -
who shields us with armor
and shall forever more ...
Muse
#46. Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
Aberjhani
#47. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#48. Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see.
Scott Hastie
#49. The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.
Steve Allen
#50. God,
is there no faith left?
He has not told. I
would not know Him if I saw Him.
Beth Morey
#51. I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief" ... a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ...
Rosy Cole
#53. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies
Aberjhani
#54. Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win!
E.V. Frapiere
#55. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close
and all will be
right again
in the world.
Sanober Khan
#57. I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
Mos Def
#58. These hands are unlike any other
strong
but gentle
caring
loving
and understanding
April Nichole
#59. We can hear your voice
We can hear it through the songs of praise
We can hear it through the birds
We can hear it through the wind
We can hear your voice in our hearts
We can hear your voice in our minds
We can hear you through everyhing
April Nichole
#60. Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#61. If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner
#62. Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
Debra Dean
#63. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Santosh Kalwar
#65. Even the most political poem is an act of faith.
Martin Espada
#66. You said one day you would come back for us
The ones that believed in you
The ones that asked you into their hearts
The ones that served you
April Nichole
#67. God moves in mysterious ways
His wonders to performs
William Cowper
#68. Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.
Lee Argus
#69. Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.
Truth Devour
#70. At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.
Christian Wiman
#71. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
Aberjhani
#72. Life remains unchanged
till a leap of faith
runs towards heaven
Santosh Kalwar
#73. Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
W. H. Auden
#74. So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.
Gerry LaFemina
#75. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now
Beth Morey
#76. I am at the gates of my own destruction.
(Or so I'm told.)
Beth Morey
#77. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.
Aberjhani
#78. Love makes you do,
the best of things.
Love makes you do,
the worst of things,
It's a feeling extreme,
that doesn't exist in between.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#79. Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.
Steve Maraboli
#80. Look upward to him
Look to him for everything
Look to him for help
Look to him for comfort
April Nichole
#81. And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth
Bryonie Wise
#82. In another land there is glory
In another land there is happiness
In another land we all get along
In another land we will stand with others
April Nichole
#83. The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.
Rumi
#84. Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ...
Muse
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