The Faith Quotes
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.
In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.