Faith Quotes

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

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".

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

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beeche

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are.

Martin Luthe

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith - - Is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

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. Jr. Stevenson

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Henry Christopher Bailey

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Johann von Goethe

I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.

R. A. Torrey

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)

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

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

Harold J. Seymore

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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

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

When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half.

Mohammed

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

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)