The Faith Quotes

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.

In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.

Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.