Faith Quotes
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
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
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.Lord Alfred Tennyson
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.Dean Koontz
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
He who loses faith, loses all.Unknown
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 is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.Mary McLeod Bethune
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.1 Timothy 611 Bible
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.Alan Watts
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
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
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.
What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
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 and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
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
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
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
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
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
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
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.Henry Christopher Bailey
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.Ambrose Bierce
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.A. Huxley, Island
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.George Bernard Shaw
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.Friedrich Nietzsche
