Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

John Quincy Adams

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

John Paul Jones

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Owen

Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

John Milton

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

John Milton

Faithful found among the faithless.

John Milton

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

John Milton

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

John Milton

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

John Milton

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Norman Cousins

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Norbert Wiener

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Mitch Albom

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Mitch Albom

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.

Mitch Albom

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

Thomas Jefferson

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Edith Hamilton

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

The Marlins didn't have enough faith in me. I didn't play well in 2004, but I was injured. I struggled in Florida, and I didn't play enough games to work my way out of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Katey Sagal

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Thomas Aquinas

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

Thomas Aquinas

The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

Thomas Aquinas

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith is God's work within us.

Thomas Aquinas

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

Therese of Lisieux

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

Therese of Lisieux

Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart… don’t listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love…

Therese of Lisieux

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Therese of Lisieux

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Therese of Lisieux

I am very far from practicing what I understand.