Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Eugene O'Neill

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

Francis of Assisi

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Francis Collins

Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.

Francis Asbury

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Jean Rostand

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Goldie Hawn

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

Gerald Vann

If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

Ignatius of Antioch

I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.

Ignatius of Antioch

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Ignatius of Antioch

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

Ignatius of Antioch

No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.

Ignatius of Loyola

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

Ignatius of Loyola

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

Ignatius of Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

Ignatius of Loyola

Discouragement is not from God.

Iain Duncan Smith

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

Hosea Ballou

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

Troy Percival

He's very even-keeled. He knows the game. He puts faith in his players. He doesn't try to do too much.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

George Bernard Shaw

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Frederick William Faber

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Robertson

There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

Erich Fromm

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

Erich Fromm

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Brittany has been a rock for us this year, so I told the rest of the team that we are going to have good teamwork and we are going to do this. I think what happened tonight, I'm sorry that happened for her but I have faith that she'll come back and dominate.

Sathya Baba

Be steady, have faith, and reach the Goal safe.

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

Even those devotees who worship demigods with faith, they too worship Me, but in an improper way.

Sathya Baba

Be like the Star which never wavers from the Crescent but is fixed in steady faith.

Sathya Baba

Be like the lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

David Harsanyi

Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.