Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith ...

Henri Frederic Amiel

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Helen Keller

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

Cat Stevens

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

James E. Faust

Believing requires action.

James Freeman Clarke

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. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

J. R. R. Tolkien

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.

Isaac Asimov

Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

Isaac Asimov

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

Jennifer Hudson

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

George Sand

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Jean Racine

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?

Jean Racine

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Jean Racine

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

Jim Bakker

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.

James A. Baldwin

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James A. Baldwin

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Christopher Hitchens

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

Fulton Oursler

Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.