Faith Quotes
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.Henry H. Haskins
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
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 call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
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 bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Saint Augustine
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.Aesop
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13
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
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
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.Friedrich Nietzsche
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.John Owen
Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.Stephen S. Wise
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.Clive Staples Lewis
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
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
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Friedrich Nietzsche
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.J. R. R. Tolkien
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Faith is a continuation of reason.William Adams
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
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.Ruth Fulton Benedict
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.
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
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.Philip Gulley