Faith Quotes
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.Eric Hoffe
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.Anon.
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, O Magazine, September 2002
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson
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
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
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
Faith - - Is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
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
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.Robert Frost
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.Samuel Butle
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 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
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
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
We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.Albert E. Cliffe
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - - No wonder, then, that I return the love.Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.Rabbi David Wolpe
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Friedrich Nietzsche
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.Hal Borland
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. Stevenson Jr.
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
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
