The Faith Quotes
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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.
I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.
Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?
It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.
Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'
Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.
Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.
Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.