Quotes about Alone
Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.
- Andrew Murray
Saint Paul (whom I had thought of as the first Luther) taught in Romans, Galatians and elsewhere that justification was more than a legal decree; it established us in Christ as God's children by grace alone. In fact, I discovered that nowhere did Saint Paul ever teach that we were justified by faith alone! Sola fide was unscriptural!
- Scott Hahn
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
- John Calvin
But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for men's eternal redemption and he alone officiated in that priestly act.
- John Calvin
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.
- Henri Nouwen
To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
- RC Sproul
What is shame? God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.
- Edward Welch
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments—and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
- Thomas Merton
Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
- Robert Frost
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
- Martin Luther
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
- John Henry Newman