Faith Quotes

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

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

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

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.

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

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.

Anon.

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

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

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

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

Faith is a cop - Out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barke

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

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

B. B. Warfield

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

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother.

Hannah Nixon

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

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

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

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - - A matter of faith, unsuited to a public school? s curriculum.

George F. Will, Newsweek, July 4, 2005