Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brenda Ueland

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

Lech Walesa

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Lea Thompson

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

C. J. Mahaney

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

Carl Jung

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Carl Jung

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promise land.

Billy Sunday

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Bill Moyers

When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

Bernard de Mandeville

Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.

Charles Simeon

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Horton Cooley

Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.

Beth Moore

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love...

Bernard of Clairvaux

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Benny Hinn

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Dean Koontz

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

Dan Barker

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

Dan Barker

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Dan Barker

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

B. C. Forbes

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Arthur Keith

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.