Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Kraus

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

Karl Lagerfeld

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

Ouida

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

Paul Tournier

God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Faith demands uncertainty, confusion. The Bible includes many proofs of God's concern - some quite spectacular - but no guarantess. A guarantee would, after all, preclude faith.

Paul Tournier

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

Paul Tillich

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Paul Tillich

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

Paul Tillich

Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.

Paul Tillich

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

John Phillips

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

John Piper

If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

Martin Luther

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

Martin Luther

Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

Martin Luther

Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Martin Luther

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

Martin Luther

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Martin Luther

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Martin Luther

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Martin Luther

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do...

Martin Luther

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

Martin Luther

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Martin Luther

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

Martin Luther

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?