Faith Quotes

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

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

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

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

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

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

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

Alexander Hodge

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith without works is dead.

Bible

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

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

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Marie Dressle

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

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

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 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

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 276 Bible

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Andre Gide

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

Harold J. Seymore

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

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin