Faith Quotes
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.Buddha
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.Martin Luthe
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
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.Thomas Edison
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.Chris Rock
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.General Douglas MacArthu
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.Stephen S. Wise
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.Albert Einstein
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
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 sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother.Hannah Nixon
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.Friedrich Nietzsche
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.J. William Fulbright
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)
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.Harriet Beecher Stowe
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.Plato
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.Henry H. Haskins
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
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
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson
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
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.Robert Browning
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
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.William Arthur Ward
