Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fulton J. Sheen

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Fulton J. Sheen

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Fulton J. Sheen

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

Fulton J. Sheen

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

Fulton J. Sheen

The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying that the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description.

Francois Rabelais

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Francois Rabelais

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Christopher Hitchens

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

Christopher Dawson

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Frances Wright

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

George Santayana

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

George Santayana

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

George Santayana

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

George McGovern

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George Orwell

The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

George Orwell

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

George Muller

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

George Muller

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Frantz Fanon

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

Jeanette Winterson

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Jewel

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

Jeremy Taylor

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy

Jeremy Taylor

Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

Christopher Columbus

Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

Christina Rossetti

To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.

Christina Rossetti

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

George W. Bush

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

George W. Bush

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.