Faith Quotes
Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has
been set afire....George Matthew Adams.
Faith is a function of
the heart....Mahatma Gandhi.
Keep your faith in all beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden, in the
Spring when it is gone....Roy R. Gilson.
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it,
but you can see the light....Unknown.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but
it cannot be the pride of a mother in her
children, for that is a compound of two cardinal
virtues -- faith and hope....Charles Dickens.
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm
a believer, so I sing words of God to those
who have no faith....Olivier Messiaen.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals and
outgrowing the consciousness of youth. Years wrinkle the
skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul...You are
as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to
keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-
confidence young. Keep your hope young....Luella F. Phelan.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the
dawn is still dark....Sir Rabindranath Tagore.
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much
selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For
faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love
and faith go together, they complete each other....Mother Teresa.
It is becoming increasingly clear to me that the
search for courage and the pilgrimage called faith
are inseparable sides of the same reality....W. Paul Jones.
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have
it you can't understand it. And if you do, no
explanation is necessary...Major Kira Nerys.
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life
on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to
believe that the possibility exists....William Salter.
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....Mahatma Gandhi.
Be faithful in small things because it is in
them that your strength lies....Mother Teresa.
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is
necessary to victory....William Hazlitt.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is
human, the former is a Gift from God....Blaise Pascal.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where
there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is
injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where
there is despair, hope; where there is darkness,
light; and where there is sadness, joy....Unknown.
Faith is not belief.
Belief is passive.
Faith is active....Edith Hamilton.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless
of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something
regardless of the consequences....Sherwood Eddy.
Faith supplies staying power...anyone can keep going
when the going is good, but some extra ingredient
is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that
everything is against you....Norman Vincent Peale.
The way to see by Faith is to shut
the Eye of Reason....Benjamin Franklin.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose
ways you may not understand at the time....Oswald Chambers.
Faith is trust in what the spirit
learned eons ago....B.H. Roberts.
There are always risks when you chase after a dream
because growth requires that you leave your comfort
zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting
those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike
says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some
of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not
willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can
learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will
need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your
ability to achieve your goals....Stedman Graham.
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and
attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires
and calmly and persistently expects....Ralph W. Trine.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't
pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a
way of life can restore your faith in yourself....Lucille Ball.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is
a condition of intellectual magnificence to which
we must cling as to a treasure....George Sand.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is
his faith, even so is he....Indian Proverb.
If faith produces no works, I see that faith
is not a living tree. Thus faith and works
together grow, No separate life they never can
know. They're soul and body, hand and heart,
what God hath joined, let no man part....Hannah More.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen....Hebrews 11:1.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope
with things that are not in hand....Saint Thomas Acquinas.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward
of this faith is to see what you believe....St. Augustine.
Faith is a continuation
of reason....William Adams.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by
faith what I cannot grasp with the mind....St. Bernard.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to
contradict each other....Blaise Pascal.
All of us are confused and ambivalent at times.
We don't know the answer to a problem or we are
faced with conflicting answers. Instead of giving up,
instead of drowning in doubt, soul growth requires
that we forge ahead, that we continue to ask questions
and look for answers -- all the while having faith that
everything is unfolding in the right manner....John Gray.
Your faith is what you believe, not
what you know....John Lancaster Spalding.
When I was younger, I thought that the key to
success was just hard work. But the real foundation
is faith. Faith -- the idea that 'I can do it' -- is the
opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates
motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work,
preparation...and eventually success....Howard Twilley.
Faith is the very first thing you should
pack in a hope chest....Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making
claims to victory before it is achieved....Robert Schuller.
Have faith and the way
will open....Quaker Saying.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can
count the number of apples in a seed....Robert H. Schuller.
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is
mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful,
but work and desire are invincible....Thomas Robert Gaines.
Faith is not belief without proof, but
trust without reservation....Elton Trueblood.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can
take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith....Henry Ward Beecher.
He who has courage and faith will
never parish in misery....Anne Frank.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too
greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows
not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience,
patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and
faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach --
waiting for a gift from the sea....Anne Morrow Lindberg.
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less
than faith in action....Henry Chester.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make
work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength
to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to
confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until
some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your
neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove
all anxious fears concerning the future....Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence....Helen Keller.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step....Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not pray for success. I ask
for faithfulness....Mother Teresa.
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; A great
faith will bring heaven to your soul....Charles Spurgeon.
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther
than it can see....William Newton Clark.
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream
and work. Faith is mighty, but action with
faith is mightier....Thomas Robert Gaines.
Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have,
we lose people. But you never forget them.
And, sometimes, it's the memories that give
us the faith to go on....Unknown.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that
faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we
understand it....February 27, 1860 -- Cooper Union Address.
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