6 John Buchan Quotes on Faith

John Buchan quotes on faith

48. I am a sceptic about most things... but, believe me, I have my own worship. I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.

54. Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.

74. I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.

76. Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

77. The best prayers have often more groans than words.

79. He who would valiant be against all disaster; Let him in constancy Follow the Master. There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent; His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.