Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Sherry Argov

Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

Nick Vujicic

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

Nick Vujicic

We know that God works for all things together for the good of those who love Him and that God is faithful. We will fail God, we will fail our family and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Niels Bohr

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

John Wooden

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Matthew Arnold

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

Maya Angelou

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

Matthew Pearl

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Mark Ryan

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Marilynne Robinson

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Plato

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Plato

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

Paula Abdul

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Lech Walesa

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Philip James Bailey

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Paulo Coelho

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Max Planck

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Lucado

Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

Max Lucado

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Max Lucado

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Max Lucado

Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

Maureen O'Hara

I have never lost my faith in God.

Matthew Simpson

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Matthew Simpson

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Matthew Simpson

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Henry

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Maya Angelou

There is no place where God is not.

Maya Angelou

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.