Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Swetchine

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

Sophie Swetchine

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

Sophie Swetchine

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

Soren Kierkegaard

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Soren Kierkegaard

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Soren Kierkegaard

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Soren Kierkegaard

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.

Thomas Guthrie

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

Thomas Hobbes

For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

Thomas Hobbes

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

Woody Allen

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

William Whewell

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

William Wordsworth

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

William Wordsworth

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

William James

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

William James

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William Ellery Channing

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

Willard Van Orman Quine

An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.

Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Saint Augustine

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Saint Augustine

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.