Faith Quotes
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
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By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
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[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.
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I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
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As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.
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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
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He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.
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Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.
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He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.
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The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.
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Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.
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What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.
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You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.
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What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith - and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers - regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams.
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Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.
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In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.
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The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.
