Childlike Faith Quotes

• A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

  Helen Keller

  Children, Simple, Sea

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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• Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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• I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different.

  Charles Studd

  Simple, Missionary, Different

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• You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

  John F. MacArthur

  Faith, Thinking, Childlike

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• Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.

  Ted Dekker

  People, Skins, One Day

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.649, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Should Have

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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• All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

  Rockwell Kent

  Reality, Men, Looks

  Rockwell Kent (2000). “Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan”, p.40, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religion, Tests, Jokes

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

  Todd Burpo

  Mom, Daughter, Morning

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• Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Santa

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Fundamentals, Politician

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Generosity

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

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• Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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• He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Compassion, Long

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