Faith Quotes
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
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
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
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.Reinhold Niebuh
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.Samuel Butle
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.Saint Francis of Assisi
How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.Barbara J. Winte
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
Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Hebrews 122 Bible
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.Friedrich Nietzsche
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".
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
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.Susan Taylo
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.Eric Hoffe
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.Abraham Lincoln
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.Victor Hugo
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.Anon.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
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
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
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.Edward Dowden
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
