Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

To Ronnie: Well done, thou good and faithful servant,

Paul Simon

All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.

Paul Simon

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Philip Yancey

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

We don't always recognize God's hand supporting us, ... It's only later that we realize that it's the strength of our faith that gets us through.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

David Jeremiah

God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.

David Jeremiah

Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

David Jeremiah

Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

David Eagleman

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

David A. Bednar

With faith . . . we must walk to the edge of the light and into the darkness. As we so walk I testify and promise that the light will move. When I was your age and wondering some of the exact same things that you are now wondering, I never would have imagined that someday [we] would be at Ricks College serving as we are. . . . I know the light moves as we walk in faith to the edge of the light.

David Wilkerson

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

David Whyte

and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love

Dag Hammarskjold

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.

Dag Hammarskjold

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Dante Alighieri

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

Dante Alighieri

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Dan Simmons

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Dan Simmons

I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Billy Graham

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

Billy Graham

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

Benmont Tench

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.

Frank Wolf

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

We bypassed the local system because we have no faith that they?re going to do anything.

find room to respect people of different faiths and different faith traditions.

Sathya Baba

Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

Darin Strauss

Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.

Faith is about hope and second chances, and we think our songs reflect that,

William Shakespeare

Faith, I ran when I saw others run.