Kevin McDonald Quotes

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

Miracles exist - you just have to believe it.