Faith Quotes
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.William Hazlitt
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.Benjamin Franklin
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
Leading the Jewish people is not easy - we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp - wittedness and polemics to a very high level.Shimon Peres
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.Eric Hoffe
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.George Goethals
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.Ferdinand Magellan
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.Chris Rock
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866 - 1916 by Rev. W. Odom
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.Charles Hodge
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith is a continuation of reason.William Adams
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.Plato
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.Mark Beltaire
Faith without works is dead.Bible
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.Tyron Edwards
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.Henri Frdric Amiel
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.John Lancaster Spalding
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.Robert M. Pirsig
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.Mark Twain
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
