Faith Quotes
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.Brigitte Bardot
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
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.Stanislaw Lem
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
Faith is a continuation of reason.William Adams
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.Robert M. Pirsig
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.George Bernard Shaw
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae
I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.Kathe Kollwitz
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
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
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)
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
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.B. B. Warfield
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.General Douglas MacArthu
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
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.
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields".
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
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.Eric Hoffe
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Kahlil Gibran
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
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.Eleanor Roosevelt
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.Henry H. Haskins
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
