Faith Quotes
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.
Ann Magnuson
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
Walt Whitman
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I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.
George H. Smith
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
Jeff Bezos
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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One might conclude that these were a few rogue rotten Spanish apples, acting in opposition to their faith. But notice the religious motivation for the cruelty described by Bartolomé: They took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, “Boil there, you offspring of the devil!”…They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim’s feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive
Brian D. McLaren
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Never confuse faith, or belief - of any kind - with something even remotely intellectual.
John Irving
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Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue.
Anthony Provenzano
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When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.
Bobby Lashley
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I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.
Jimmy Carter
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You have as much laughter as you have faith.
Martin Luther
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Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.
Eric Metaxas
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Faith is a mystery and an experience of the divine in the world, not a solution to a set of problems.
Bart Ehrman
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Faith is obedience, nothing else.
Emil Brunner
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Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
Thomas Aquinas
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It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
Christian D. Larson
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Hermann Hesse
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
William James
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
Francis Chan
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Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am sorry for causing anyone to lose faith in sport.
Lizzie Armitstead
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Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
Jerry Bridges