Faith Quotes
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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
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Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.
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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.
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Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue.
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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.
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Early scientific thinking was holistic, but speculative -- the modern scientific temper reacted by being empirical, but atomistic. Neither is free from error, the former because it replaces factual inquiry with faith and insight, and the latter because it sacrifices coherence at the altar of facticity. We witness today another shift in ways of thinking: the shift toward rigorous but holistic theories. This means thinking in terms of facts and events in the context of wholes, forming integrated sets with their own properties and relationships.
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Faith was designed to take what Jesus makes! If you want to lay hold of the finished works of Jesus, it's going to be by faith! Have faith in God.
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I slowly began to realize that I had been wasting my time with a hyper-focus on why all the “others” were doing it wrong and began to release the icy grip I had on everything I thought I knew. I finally accepted that I would be much happier if I just focused on myself and taking my own faith journey seriously and stopped worrying so much about everyone else. As soon as I gave up on the idea of changing everyone else and exchanged it for a commitment to change myself, I saw my heart begin to change.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
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I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.
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I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
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He was the only person I ever met whose soul I could clearly see in his eyes. And I had more faith in him than I've ever had in another human being.
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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
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If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
