Faith Quotes

Erich fromm - if faith cannot be reconciled with rational...
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Thornton - hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not...
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen S. Wise
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
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
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
Philip Gulley
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
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dan barke - faith is a cop - out. if the only way you can...
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
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
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
Faith... Must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - - A matter of faith, unsuited to a public school? s curriculum.
George F. Will, Newsweek, July 4, 2005
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Reinhold Niebuh
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Aesop
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
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
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.
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
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
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
Robert Browning
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
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
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
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
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylo
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
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
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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