Faith Quotes

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

Victor Hugo

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

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

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

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

Leo Braeck

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 276 Bible

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

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

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

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffe

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

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

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

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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

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

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

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

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butle

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Ferdinand Magellan

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

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

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

A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Robert Frost

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Faith without works is dead.

Bible

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

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866 - 1916 by Rev. W. Odom