Faith Quotes
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.George Barrell Cheeve
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, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13
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
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.Dwight Lyman Moody
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.Thomas H. Huxley
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
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.Jacob Chanowski
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
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.George Bernard Shaw
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.William M. Evarts
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.Johann von Goethe
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Tabe
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.Eleanor Roosevelt
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.Marie Dressle
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.D. Elton Trueblood
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.Heinrich Heine
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - - No wonder, then, that I return the love.Soren Kierkegaard
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.Alexander Hodge
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.R. A. Torrey
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.Stanislaw Lem
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.
