Faith Quotes
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Faith is a continuation of reason.William Adams
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
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Friedrich Nietzsche
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.1 Timothy 611 Bible
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
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
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. Jr. Stevenson
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
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
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.J. William Fulbright
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.Buddha
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
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
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.Samuel Butle
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, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.Henry Ward Beeche
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.Sydney Smith
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
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
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
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
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.Victor Hugo
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
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.Buddha
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)
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
