Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.
~By Sydney Carter ~
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
~By Austin Farrer ~
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
~By Simone Weil ~
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
~By Don King ~
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
~By Edward Dowden ~
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
~By George Whitefield ~
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
~By Plato ~
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
~By King Hussein I ~
Faith never makes a confession.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
~By Katey Sagal ~
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
~By Randall Terry ~
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
~By Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
~By Sean Connery ~
My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.
~By Jim Caviezel ~
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
~By William Law ~
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
~By Brad Henry ~
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
~By William Bartram ~
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~By William Gurnall ~
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
~By Joseph Glanvill ~
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
~By James Hal Cone ~
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.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
~By James Lee Burke ~
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
~By Jerry Reed ~
I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
~By Robert Walpole ~
I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
~By Fay Godwin ~
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
~By Walter Scott ~
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
~By Ben Stein ~
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
~By George McGovern ~
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
~By Horace ~
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
~By Henry Brooke ~
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.
~By Julie London ~
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
~By Adam Clarke ~
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
~By Lech Walesa ~
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~By Peter Conrad ~
We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.
~By Benny Hinn ~
Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.
~By Carlos Alvarez ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
~By Richard Morris ~
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
~By Karl Barth ~
A library implies an act of faith.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
~By Pat Buckley ~
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
~By John Strachan ~
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
~By Dusty Springfield ~
A man is only as faithful as his options.
~By Chris Rock ~
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
~By Walter Rauschenbusch ~
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
~By William James ~
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
~By William James ~
Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
~By Arthur E. Morgan ~
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
~By John Piper ~
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
~By H. C. Bailey ~
God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
~By Chubby Checker ~
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
~By Thomas Browne ~
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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