Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johan Huizinga

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

Joan of Arc

If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.

Joan of Arc

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Georg Simmel

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

George A. Smith

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Arthur Rimbaud

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!

Edith Hamilton

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

The Marlins didn't have enough faith in me. I didn't play well in 2004, but I was injured. I struggled in Florida, and I didn't play enough games to work my way out of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Jose Saramago

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Joni Eareckson Tada

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

Jonathan Swift

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Khaled Hosseini

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Khalil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Khalil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Jonathan Sacks

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

Lucian

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

M. Night Shyamalan

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

Mahalia Jackson

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

Mahatma Gandhi

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible