Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
Patrick White -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
Sam Brownback -
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami -
That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
Rachel Weisz
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans -
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt -
I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
Sam Brownback -
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers -
I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama -
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
N. T. Wright -
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang -
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
Ursula Andress -
When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
Immanuel Velikovsky
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
T. S. Eliot -
I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.
Johnny Vegas -
O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.
Bahá'u'lláh -
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall -
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Patricia Marx -
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe