Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

Aristotle

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Basil Hume

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

Elizabeth Edwards

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

Leon is a smart guy. I have faith in Leon, in his decision-making process.

Sathya Baba

Let the different faiths exist; let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

Ari Fleischer

Scott had the faith and the trust of the president, and that's the most important ingredient.

John Ridley

So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.

Eden Phillpotts

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Edwin Louis Cole

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Arthur C. Clarke

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Anton Chekhov

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Asa Gray

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

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.

Bradley Whitford

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Anwar Sadat

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

Bruce Lee

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.