Faith Quotes

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexander hodge - faith must have adequate evidence, else it is...
Jonathan swift - faith he must make his stories shorter or change...
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
John Owen
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
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffe
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
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
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
Charles Hodge
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
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Friedrich nietzsche, human, all too human - people who comprehend a thing to its very depths...
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
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
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
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
Faith - - Is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
Ruth Fulton Benedict
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario M Cuomo
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Henri Frdric Amiel
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein
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
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
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
B. B. Warfield
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
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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
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