Faith Quotes

Marie dressle - what a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures...
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
William M. Evarts
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
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
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
Buddha - on a long journey of human life, faith is the...
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Thomas Edison
Bible - faith is the substance of things hoped for, the...
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Sydney Smith
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 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
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
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
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
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butle
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
George Goethals
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
V. P. Skippe
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
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
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
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 was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.
R. A. Torrey
When you come to the end of everything you know And are faced with the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winte
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Jonathan Swift
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 27, 2003
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Henri Frdric Amiel
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
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