Faith Quotes
Faith is a cop - Out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can? t be taken on its own merits.Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?Charles Darwin
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Saint Augustine
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.Proverbs 276 Bible
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.Heinrich Heine
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
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
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.Ellen G. White
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.Joyce
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline".
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
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.B. B. Warfield
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.Benjamin Franklin
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.Thomas Jefferson
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.Buddha
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
