J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.

• There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Stars, Heart

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Evil, Soil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Religious, Inspiration

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Christian, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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