Thursday, March 3, 2011

Quotes on #Faith

Faith

 

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
~David S. Muzzey

Faith is a passionate intuition.
~William Wordsworth

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.
~Sir William Osler

A man of courage is also full of faith.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~George Seaton

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
~Benjamin Franklin

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
~George Lancaster Spalding

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
~Mother Teresa

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods
~ C.S. Lewis

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~Kahlil Gibran

Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future.
It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
~Joni Erickson Tada

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right.
~John Donne

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
~Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is not contrary to reason.
~Sherwood Eddy

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith means not wanting to know what is true
~ Friedrich Nietzsch

I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt.
~Robert Schuller

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
~E.M. Forster

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
~Mason Cooley

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
~ Oswald Chambers

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
~Author Unknown

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~Henry Ward Beecher

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
~Oscar Wilde

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
~Author Unknown

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
~ William James

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
~ Oscar Wilde

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~George Seaton

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
~Mark Twain

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
~Albert Camus

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
~Matthew Henry

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
~Thomas Jefferson

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
~William Blake

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.
~John Sullivan Dwight

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
~William Blake

Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.
~D. T. Niles

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
~Augustine of Hippo

Don’t feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn’t make you a Christian.
~Unknown

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
~G. K. Chesterton

Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.
~Unknown

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
~Henry Louis Mencken

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
~George Bernard Shaw

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Christian life consists of faith and charity.
~Martin Luther

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
~Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.
~Unknown

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
~Elbert Hubbard

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

One ABC of Christianity: ”Always Be Cheerful”
~Unknown

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
~C.S. Lewis

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