Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard G. Scott

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Susan B. Anthony

[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.

Tori Amos

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Ted Cruz

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

Ted Cruz

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Bob Dylan

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Bob Dylan

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

Brigham Young

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

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.

Blaise Pascal

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.

Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Blaise Pascal

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

Blaise Pascal

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Blaise Pascal

I know whom I have believed.

Blaise Pascal

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

Blaise Pascal

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

Blaise Pascal

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Blaise Pascal

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

John Donne

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

Charles Spurgeon

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

Charles Spurgeon

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.