Quote: Faith is a continuation of reason. Author: William Adams American Businessman
Quote: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. Author: Alexander The Great 352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King
Quote: May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Faith is a higher faculty than reason. Author: Henry Christopher Bailey
Quote: In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. Author: Henry Christopher Bailey
Quote: You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Author: Jim Bakker 1940-, American Evangelist
Quote: The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. Author: Francis Beaumont 1584-1616, British Dramatist
Quote: Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Author: Ruth Benedict 1887-1948, American Anthropologist
Quote: Faith is not a thing which one ''loses,'' we merely cease to shape our lives by it. Author: Georges Bernanos 1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer
Quote: I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. Author: St. Bernard 1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer
Quote: According to your faith; be it done unto you. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... Author: Emily Bronte 1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.'' Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Author: Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
Quote: Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. Author: James Freeman Clarke 1810-1888, American Minister, Theologian
Quote: Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Author: Mason Cooley
Quote: Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. Author: Donald Curtis
Quote: What we wish, that we readily believe. Author: Demosthenes c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator
Quote: It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. Author: Annie Dillard 1945-, American Author, Poet
Quote: As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Faith is not contrary to reason… Author: Sherwood Eddy
Quote: Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated. Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The course of everything goes to teach us faith. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. Author: William M. Evarts 1818-1901, American Lawyer, Statesman
Quote: Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. Author: Viktor E. Frankl 1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''
Quote: In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Quote: Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Non-violence is the article of faith. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. Author: George W. Goethals
Quote: If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. Author: George Gurdjieff 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer
Quote: Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. Author: John Haggai
Quote: A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. Author: Bob Harrington American Minister of ''Chaplain of Bourbon Street''
Quote: If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. Author: Cullen Hightower
Quote: The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. Author: Vaclav Hlavaty
Quote: Some things have to be believed to be seen. Author: Ralph Hodgson 1871-1962, British Poet
Quote: Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. Author: Raymond Holliwell
Quote: It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. Author: Rufus M. Jones
Quote: All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. Author: James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author
Quote: Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
Quote: Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Faith is the refusal to panic. Author: David Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981, British Preacher, Writer
Quote: It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner. Author: Vince Lombardi 1913-1970, American Football Coach
Quote: Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. Author: Sophia Loren 1934-, Italian Film Actress
Quote: The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. Author: Sir John Lubbock 1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist
Quote: At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation. Author: Max L. Lucado American Author of ''The Eye of the Storm''
Quote: Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: Reason is the enemy of faith. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: The principal part of faith is patience. Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Quote: The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? Author: Edwin Markham 1852-1940, American Poet and Editor
Quote: Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory. Author: Giuseppe Mazzini 1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer
Quote: Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author
Quote: Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Author: Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992, French Composer, Organist
Quote: Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Author: Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899, American Evangelist
Quote: It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Author: Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899, American Evangelist
Quote: If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. Author: Hannah More 1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist
Quote: The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. Author: George E. Mueller 1918-, American Engineer
Quote: That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary Author: Major Kira Nerys
Quote: It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. Author: Cardinal J. Newman 1801-1890, British Preacher
Quote: Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. Author: Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971, American Theologian, Historian
Quote: Faith is the heroism of the intellect. Author: Charles H. Parkhurst 1842-1933, American Clergyman, Reformer
Quote: Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Weave in faith and God will find the thread. Author: Proverb
Quote: A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. Author: Indian proverb Sayings of Indian Origin
Quote: Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago. Author: B.H. Roberts
Quote: A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted. Author: Adrian Rogers
Quote: The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA
Quote: Base souls have no faith in great individuals. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief. Author: Thomas Russell
Quote: My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. Author: Samuel Rutherford 1600-1661, Scottish Pastor
Quote: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. Author: William Salter
Quote: Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. Author: George Sand 1804-1876, French Novelist
Quote: In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. Author: Friedrich Schlegel 1772-1829, German Philosopher, Critic, Writer
Quote: We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith. Author: Samuel M. Shoemaker
Quote: It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. Author: Sydney Smith 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman
Quote: Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. Author: John Lancaster Spalding
Quote: Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God. Author: John R. Stott 1921-, British Anglican clergyman and writer
Quote: When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Author: Edward Teller American Physicist and Author
Quote: Faith lives in honest doubt. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity? Author: Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher
Quote: Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. Author: A. W. Tozer ?-1963, American Preacher
Quote: Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. Author: Elton Trueblood
Quote: Faith is believing what you know ain't so. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'' Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed. Author: C. M. Ward
Quote: Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that Author: Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman
Quote: The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,'' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me. Author: John Wesley 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism
Quote: Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. Author: Ellen Gould White 1827-1915, American Seventh-day Adventist Leader
Quote: When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. Author: John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author
Quote: I can believe anything provided it is incredible. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Author: Robert Eldridge Willmott
Quote: There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. Author: John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new. Author: Young
Quote: When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Quote: Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. Author: H. L. Mencken
Quote: We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: I always prefer to believe the best of everybody-it saves so much trouble. Author: Rudyard Kipling
Quote: Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. Author: William Ellery Channing
Quote: It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Quote: The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Quote: Alas, reason is not effective against faith, or against searches for miracles by the desperate. Author: Dr. Michael B. Shimkin
Quote: Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. Author: George Santayana
Quote: Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, andself-annihilation. Author: Johnny Hart
Quote: Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel. Author: Ambrose Bierce
Quote: Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. Author: Eric Hoffer
Quote: Faith is never identical with piety. Author: Karl Barth
Quote: Faith is not reason's labor, but repose. Author: Young
Quote: Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. Author: Louis J. Halle
Quote: Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. Author: Boston
Quote: Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. Author: Davenant
Quote: Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. Author: William James
Quote: Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. Author: Walter Kaufmann
Quote: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Author: Alexander Pope
Quote: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. Author: Alexander Pope
Quote: If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Author: Pope Gregory I
Quote: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Author: Tennyson
Quote: Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Quote: Nought shall prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Author: Wordsworth
Quote: The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch comejudgment day. Author: Robert Heinlein
Quote: The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people: I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arroganceself-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come judgment day. Author: Robert Heinlein
Quote: Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. Author: Henry S. Haskins
Quote: The world cannot always understand a person's profession of faith, but it can understand service. Author: Ian Maclaren
Quote: There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith. Author: W. E. H. Lecky
Quote: Faith can be defined as any man's hope that the human spirit is capable of understanding; that anything actually matters in the larger universe; and that understanding anything could be important outside of our own selfish whims and desire to survive....and somehow, because it is important, understanding can go on without us, waiting only to be rediscovered by the future, or at worst, pissed away, in spite of all our prayers, and work, and suffering. Author: Anonymous
Quote: Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: Without risk there is no faith. Faith is precisely the contradiction between the infinite passion of the individual's inwardness and the objective uncertainty. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith. Author: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Quote: Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Author: Khalil Gibran
Quote: Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Author: Paul Johannes Tillich
Quote: Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate. Author: F.M. Knowles
Quote: The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else;and, therefore, they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, the Heloetius, andthe rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear that generates true courage. Author: Burke
Quote: Pray to God, but keep rowing toward(s) the shore. Author: Chinese Proverb
Quote: "Faith is the acceptance that we can grasp the reality of a truth, not be fully understanding it, but know enough to understand it's right, it works, it's perfect." Author: Anonymous Anonymous
Quote: "Faith is the acceptance that we can grasp the reality of a truth, not be fully understanding of it, but know enough to understand it's right, it works, it's perfect." Author: Anonymous Anonymous