Quotes about faith
faith cutting anxiety
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. Thomas a Kempis
faithful sinner
The faithful will be victorious over the sinners... Saddam Hussein
faith people burned
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. Rufus Jones
faith doubt atheism
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. Robertson Davies
faith inspiration giving
God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God. Robert Southwell
faith faces harsh
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. Robert Louis Stevenson
faith victory unqualified
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
faith god names
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.... Walt Whitman
faith swear
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
faith religious lying
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. Sam Harris
faith world would-be
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
faith science men
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
faith people support
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
faith religious criticism
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.
faith inspiration boys
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more. Saint Patrick
faith ideas people
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. Russell Simmons
faith yesterday way
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. Romain Rolland
faith spiritual path
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. Rumi
faith attitude mean
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
faith morning pain
He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
faith courage father
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
faith believe self
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is. Thomas Aquinas
faith ends knowing-god
In the end, we know God as unknown.
faith men reason
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
faith religion authority
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson
faith heart offering
It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. Sharon Salzberg
faith moving journey
The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.
faith thinking belief
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.
faith march lord
March on, the Lord is our General. Swami Vivekananda
faith children son
We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.
faith believe heart
Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?
faith lying ocean
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
faith heart people
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.