Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Oswald Chambers

We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

Oswald Chambers

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

Oswald Chambers

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Oswald Chambers

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

Oswald Chambers

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.

Oswald Chambers

We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

Oswald Chambers

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Oswald Chambers

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Oswald Chambers

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Michael Ramsey

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Francois Rabelais

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Francois Rabelais

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

Francois Rabelais

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Christopher Hitchens

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

Christopher Dawson

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Havelock Ellis

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.

Frances Wright

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

George Santayana

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

George Santayana

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

George Santayana

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

George McGovern

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George Orwell

The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

George Orwell

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

George Muller

The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

George Muller

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.