Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Muller

Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.

Ella Eyre

I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.

Anne Lamott

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Albert Camus

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

Daniel Dennett

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

E. B. White

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Andrew Peterson

Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.

Andrew Schneider

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Andre Gide

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Andrew Vachss

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Anselm of Canterbury

I believe in order that I may understand.

Amy Carmichael

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anne Sexton

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

Anne Sexton

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.

Anne Sexton

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

Andy Murray

Christ will always accept the faith that puts its trust in Him

Ambrose Bierce

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Ambrose Bierce

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Ambrose Bierce

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Alice Walker

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

Alexander MacLaren

Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

Alexander MacLaren

Faith is the sight of the inward eye.

Alexander Pope

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Alberta Hunter

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

E. Stanley Jones

I have only to be true to the highest I know-success of failure is in the hand of God.

E. O. Wilson

[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

E. O. Wilson

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

E. M. Forster

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.