Faith Quotes
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What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.
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Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
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Faith should be at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We’re so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.
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I wonder if the fact that I left the faith is somehow seen as threatening, at least among people who have a gnawing suspicion.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Faith is obedience, nothing else.
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However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
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We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
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At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
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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
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.
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Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.
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Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
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No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
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...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
