Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

faith

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

To me faith means not worrying.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Pray, and let God worry.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

The principle part of faith is patience.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

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

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A library implies an act of faith.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Only faith is sufficient.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

God always takes the simplest way.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I've lost my faith in science.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

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

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

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.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.