Famous Quotes & Sayings

There was no bitterness; he understood what had happened, ... quiet faith that things would turn out all right.

Robert Jeffress

A candidate's faith is not the only consideration, but should be a major consideration in electing the president of the United States.

It's at points terrifying but again, I have great faith that God will get them through this.

Havelock Ellis

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.

Gladys Taber

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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.

Herman Melville

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Henry David Thoreau

The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Henry David Thoreau

We are older by faith than by experience.

Henry David Thoreau

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Henry David Thoreau

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

Henry David Thoreau

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Henry David Thoreau

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Henry David Thoreau

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Henry David Thoreau

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Eugene H. Peterson

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

Esther Hicks

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

Esther Hicks

If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience.

Ernest Hemingway

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Ernest Holmes

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Flannery O'Connor

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Flannery O'Connor

Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.

Henry Miller

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.

Henri Bergson

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.