Faith Quotes
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Quote by - Bible)
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (Quote by - Bible)
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Quote by - Bible)
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain! With faith o'ercome the steeps Thy God hath set for thee. Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain Lieth thine Italy. (Quote by - Rose Terry Cooke)
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. (Quote by - Jean Le Rond D'Alembert)
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified? (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? (Quote by - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans)
Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! (Quote by - Homer)
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph. (Quote by - General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre)
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! (Quote by - John Milton)
That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience. (Quote by - John Milton)
Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. (Quote by - John Milton)
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
Faith is a passionate intuition. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Faith is spiritualized imagination. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. (Quote by - Robert Collyer)
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. (Quote by - Ramona C. Carroll)
To me faith means not worrying. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. (Quote by - John Donne)
Faith is reason grown courageous. (Quote by - Sherwood Eddy)
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. (Quote by - Carter Lindberg)
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. (Quote by - David S. Muzzey)
'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzche)
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. (Quote by - Lillian Smith)
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. (Quote by - Emmanuel Teney)
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
One day the faithful will have it all! (Quote by - Neal A. Maxwell)
The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god. (Quote by - Oliver Wendel Holmes)
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. (Quote by - St Augustine)
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. (Quote by - Nietzsche)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. (Quote by - St Francis of Assisi)
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. (Quote by - Cicero)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. (Quote by - Socrates)
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. (Quote by - George E Woodberry)
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine. (Quote by - Henry S Haskins)
The faith that stand on authority is not faith. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - Adlai E Stevenson)
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. (Quote by - Edward Dowden)
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. (Quote by - Henry Christopher Bailey)
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. (Quote by - Tyron Edwards)
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all. (Quote by - Henry H Haskins)
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr)
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun- illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? (Quote by - Edwin Markham)
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. (Quote by - Plato)
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schlegel)
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. (Quote by - Ellen G White)
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. (Quote by - Charles Fillmore)
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions? (Quote by - Jackie Mason)
In my soul rages a battle without victor. Between faith without proof and reason without charm. (Quote by - Rene Sully-Prudhomme)
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. (Quote by - Gandhi)
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. (Quote by - William M Evarts)
Some say there is no God ...that we are squatting tenants in the hostile house of an absent slumlord. (Quote by - Ernest Bevans)
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (Quote by - Ecclesiastes 11:1)
I can believe anything provided it is incredible. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. (Quote by - Jonathan Tom)
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
