Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Emily Saliers

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

Herbert Hoover

I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.

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.