William Butler Yeats Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Men, Doubt

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

• The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Glasses, Mosaics

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

• I--though heart might find relief
  Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
  What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part.
  Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Christian, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

• I bear a burden that might well try
  Men that do all by rule,
  And what can I
  That am a wandering-witted fool
  But pray to God that He ease
  My great responsibilities?

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Responsibility, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.127, Library of Alexandria

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