Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have to grow up. This is the type of situation that's going to test our courage, our faith and our maturity.

Joyce Kilmer

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

Charles de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Dickens

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

We've seen growing respect for NGOs' impartiality, which is a function of a long-term trend of people losing faith in the impartiality of scientists.

There are a lot of faithful Vanderbilt fans who haven't had an opportunity like this.

Paul Tagliabue

There are a lot of complications here and I think everyone is working in good faith to get them resolved.

Jacqueline Woodson

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

Sherri Shepherd

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Richard G. Scott

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Susan B. Anthony

[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.

Tori Amos

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Ted Cruz

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

Ted Cruz

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

David Sarnoff

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Carter Heyward

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

John Updike

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

Lou Brock

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

Judith Hill

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

We?d get up there and tie the score and our old plague of turnovers would come back. We?d turn it over, but it?s one of those things where you put faith in your team and once they start clicking, you knew things were going to be OK.

Jamie Oliver

Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.

Charles Spurgeon

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.