Quotes about faith
faith religious suffering
Faith only grows through suffering. Mark Driscoll
faith self-esteem moving
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
faith wise bad-ass
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi
faith men thinking
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty. Jacob Bronowski
faith might belief
I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver. Louise Erdrich
faith offering mind
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
faith fear moving
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall. Rainer Maria Rilke
faithful principles aliens
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
faith simplicity may
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith...
faith christian inspiration
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event. John Henry Newman
faith brother rights
Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?
faith inspiration heart
It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.
faith sacrifice venture
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
faith believe responsibility
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
faith hands soul
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity John Donne
faith jesus cousin
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness. John Eldredge
faithful trying knowing-god
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him. John Ortberg
faith settling danger
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
faith spiritual mean
To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey
faith compassion knowing
Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion. John Denver
faith religious suffering
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. John Calvin
faith ignorance humility
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
faith religious pain
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
faith religious would-be
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
faith men mercy-of-god
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
faith religious suffering
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
faith religious strong
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
faith order people
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
faith connected true-faith
True faith is ever connected with hope.
faith humility christianity
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
faithful mercy goodness
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
faith religious unseen
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
faith religious prayer
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.