Faith famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
-- A. C. Dixon -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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 -
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
-- Abu Hanifa -
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
-- Adam Rickitt -
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
-- Adam Schiff -
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The needs of the times will teach you what to do.
-- Adolph Kolping -
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
-- Adolph Kolping -
And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
-- Adrienne von Speyr -
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.
-- Alan Cohen -
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord
-- Alan Redpath -
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
-- Alan Watts -
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
-- Alan Watts -
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
-- Alan Watts -
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.
-- Alan Watts -
The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.
-- Alanus de Rupe -
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
-- Albert Camus -
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
-- Albert Einstein -
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
-- Albert Einstein -
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)
-- Albertus Magnus -
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
-- Aleister Crowley -
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
-- Alice Walker -
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.
-- Allan Kardec -
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
-- Ambrose -
Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light...
-- Ambrose -
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
-- Ambrose -
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
-- Anatole France -
Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.
-- Andrew Peterson -
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
-- Andrew Schneider -
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
-- Andrew Vachss -
The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.
-- Angelo Sodano -
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
-- Anne Lamott -
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
-- Anne Lamott -
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
-- Anne Lamott -
I believe in order that I may understand.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.
-- Anthony Farindon -
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
-- Anthony of Padua -
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.
-- Antoni Zygmund -
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
-- Aristotle -
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
-- Arnold Bennett -
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.
-- Arthur Gordon Webster -
By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.
-- Arthur Tappan Pierson -
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
-- Asa Gray -
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
-- Augustus Hare -
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
-- Augustus William Hare -
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.
-- Avery Dulles -
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
-- B. B. Warfield -
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago....
-- B. H. Roberts -
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
-- Basil Hume -
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
-- Ben Stein -
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.
-- Benjamin Carson -
I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
-- Benjamin Carson -
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.
-- Benny Hinn
