What Is Faith Quotes

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.