Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

Mohammed Morsi

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

This nation was founded by men and women who wanted nothing more than freedom to practice their faith without government opposition, ... If we don't stand up for the religious rights of people around the world, who will?

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

James E. Faust

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

Samuel Butler

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

David Hess

There is just something to be said for the value of tradition, and even our faith is not just something we thought up today. It's been around for a while.

Elsa Peretti

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

Benny Hinn

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

Heber J. Grant

What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Yolanda Adams

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

Todd Rundgren

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

Adam Young

As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

Adam Gopnik

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Abraham Kuyper

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Abraham Kuyper

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Aleister Crowley

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Albert Einstein

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Albert Einstein

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Alfred Rosenberg

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

Alfred Korzybski

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

Alfred Korzybski

If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

Alfred Korzybski

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.