Faith Quotes
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.Tyron Edwards
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
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
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
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
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
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
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Tabe
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.Thomas H. Huxley
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
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.B. B. Warfield
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
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.Stephen S. Wise
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.John Dalberg
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.Martin Luthe
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 without works is dead.Bible
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.Mark Beltaire
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.Friedrich Nietzsche
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.Eric Hoffe
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.Aesop
Faith... Must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.Benjamin Franklin
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
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.Anon.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.Mary McLeod Bethune
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 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.
