Faith Quotes

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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
Anthony powell - he fell in love with himself at first sight, and...
Edward dowden - sometimes a noble failure serves the world as...
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC
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
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.
R. A. Torrey
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butle
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Bible
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
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
Khalil gibran, the prophet - doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith...
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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
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
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Dwight Lyman Moody
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
Faith... Must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
Walter Dale Langtry
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
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
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
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
Anon.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Reinhold Niebuh
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
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
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.
Chris Rock
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
General Douglas MacArthu
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
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Timothy 611 Bible