Faith Quotes
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
T. S. Eliot
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The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
D. Todd Christofferson
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My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.
Lili Reinhart
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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
Alan Lightman
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
C. S. Lewis
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse
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Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
Andrew Thomas
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All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
Bill Owens
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
Patrick Henry
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Faith is God's work within us.
John Calvin
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All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
Jakob Bohme
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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.
Martin Rees
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It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)
Joe Gibbs
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I sat two long hours arguing with the Lord Chancellor, upon the bare floor… With many flattering words, he tried to persuade me to leave my opinion… I said that I would rather die than break my faith
Anne Askew
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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.
John Calvin
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Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
Neil Diamond
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I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
Aja Naomi King
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I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
John Hawley
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Thomas Aquinas