Quotes about faith
faith christian believe
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith. Lynn Swann
faith purpose assuming
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are. Hans Selye
faith inspiration men
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. Hans Urs von Balthasar
faith christian inspiration
When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom. Hans Urs von Balthasar
faith space dating
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. Greg Behrendt
faith stars real
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith real inspiration
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration men
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration common-sense
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration men
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration men
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration long
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith inspiration believe
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith men bows
Man is at his tallest when he bows. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faithful succeed lord
If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. John Dryden
faith light saws
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. John Dryden
faith names trying
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. John Dryden
faith real thinking
I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held. Jim Wallis
faith religious gay
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. Jim Wallis
faith night wind
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. Matthew Arnold
faith-in-god god-love wells
It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me. Maya Angelou
faithful association admiration
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. Matthew Pearl
faith christian decision
Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God. Mark Ryan
faith grateful be-grateful
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. Marilynne Robinson
faith christian spiritual
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. Kirk Cameron
faith letting-go serenity
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement. Julia Cameron
faith new-life world
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world. Julia Cameron
faith win
They know what they have to do. I have faith in them to go out and win our conference.
faith good sell store
They've got to sell the store to somebody, and I think we've been negotiating in good faith with them. Tom Scott
faith moral sanity
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
faith head hits life looking lose until
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. Steve Jobs
faith heart rooms
God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts. Patrick Kavanagh
faith laughing one-day
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.