Faith Quotations - Quotations

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" Faith is the continuation of reason. "
--William Adams
"Our Lord does not praise the centurion for his amiable care of his servants, nor for his generosity to the Jews, nor for his public spirit, nor for his humility, but for his faith. "
--William Adams
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. "
--Joseph Addison
"Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. "
--Henri-Frederic Amiel
"A firm faith is the best theology; a good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty, the best policy, and temperance the best physic. "
--James H. Aughey
"As a weak limb grows stronger by exercise, so will your faith be strengthened by the very efforts you make in stretching it out toward things unseen. "
--James H. Aughey
"Faith without evidence is, properly, not faith, but prejudice or presumption; faith beyond evidence is superstition, and faith contrary to evidence is either insanity or willful perversity of mind. "
--James H. Aughey
"Were it not for an unquestioning faith, human progress would be an intolerable burden. "
--James H. Aughey
"Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God. "
--James H. Aughey
"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. "
--Saint Aurelius Augustine
"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
--Philip James Bailey
"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven; but when both are joined together, then doth the soul mount up to her eternal rest. "
--Francis Beaumont
"Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination. "
--Henry Ward Beecher
"The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith. "
--Henry Ward Beecher
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "
--Bible, Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 1)
"For we walk by faith, not by sight. "
--Bible, II Corinthians (ch. V, v. 7)
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. "
--Bible, II Timothy (ch. IV, v. 7)
"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. "
--Bible, Job (ch. XIII, v. 15)
"Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. "
--Bible, Revelations (ch. II, v. 10)
"Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. "
--Thomas Boston
"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. "
--Sarah Ban Breathnach
"The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. "
--Phillips Brooks
"Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace. "
--Thomas Brooks
"Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. "
--Thomas Brooks
"In our age faith and charity are found, but they are found apart. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. "
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Faith is the pencil of the soul That pictures heavenly things. "
--Thomas Burbridge
"Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? "
--Thomas Carlyle
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. "
--William Ellery Channing
"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world. "
--James Freeman Clarke
"In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective. "
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine word which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart; which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and feelings. "
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. "
--Robert Collyer
"Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body. "
--Charles Caleb Colton
"Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. "
--Sir William D'Avenant
"Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency. "
--Emily Dickinson
"A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. "
--John Dryden
"For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority. "
--John Dryden
"Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms. "
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment. "
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. "
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world. "
--Edward Everett
"When the soul grants what reason makes her see, That is true faith, what's more's credulity. "
--Sir Francis Fane
"In affairs of this world men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it. "
--Henry Fielding
"Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. "
--Benjamin Franklin
"We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. "
--James Anthony Froude
"It is by faith that poetry, as well as devotion, soars above this dull earth; that imagination breaks through its clouds, breathes a purer air, and lives in a softer light. "
--Henry Giles
"If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own. "
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give. "
--Thomas Guthrie
"Faith is a practical habit, which like every other, is strengthened and increased by continual exercise. It is nourished by meditation, by prayer, and the devout perusal of the Scriptures; and the light which it diffuses becomes stronger and clearer by an uninterrupted converse with its object, and a faithful compliance with its dictates. "
--Robert Hall
"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. "
--Augustus William Hare
"Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith. "
--Moses Harvey
"Faith is necessary to victory. "
--William Hazlitt
"Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. "
--Cullen Hightower
"Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. "
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm. "
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Not that God doth require nothing unto happiness at the hands of men saving only a naked belief, but that without belief all other things are as nothing. "
--Richard Hooker
"No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. "
--Thomas Hartwell Horne
"Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. "
--Victor Hugo
"It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. "
--Hermann Jacobi
"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "
--William James
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. "
--John Paul Jones
"The childlike faith that asks not sight, waits not for wonder or for sign, believes, because it loves, aright, shall see things greater, things divine. "
--John Keble
"All sects, as far as reason will help them, gladly use it; when it fails them, they cry out it is a matter of faith, and above reason. "
--John Locke
"Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide. "
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
""Patience!" * * * "have faith and thy prayer will be answered!" "
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren. "
--Martin Luther
"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. "
--General Douglas MacArthur
"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. "
--George MacDonald
"Faith is obedience, not compliance. "
--George MacDonald
"The principal part of faith is patience. "
--George MacDonald
"Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy. "
--Alexander Maclaren
"Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it." "
--Bernard Mandeville
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. "
--Henry Louis Mencken
"Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the faith they own; when earnestly they seek such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. "
--John Milton
"Faith is the flame that lifts the sacrifice to heaven. "
--James Montgomery
"The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink. "
--William Mountford
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. "
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. "
--John Owen
"Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony. "
--Blaise Pascal
"Great is his faith who does believe his eyes. "
--Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
"It is at night that faith in light is admirable. "
--Edmond Rostand
"The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms. "
--Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him. "
--Samuel Rutherford
"Which to believe of her must be a faith that reason without miracle shall never plant in me. "
--William Shakespeare
"Faith must be not only living, but lively, too; it must be brightened and stirred up by a particular exercise of those virtues specifically requisite to a due performance of duty. "
--Bishop Robert South
"Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. "
--John Sterling
"A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. "
--Jonathan Swift
"Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. "
--Jeremy Taylor
"Faith is the force of life. "
--Leo Tolstoy
"It was Lazarus' faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom. "
--Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench
"Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces. "
--Henry Clay Trumbull
"Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed. "
--Martin Farquhar Tupper
"Faith is not the lazy notion that a man may with careless confidence throw his burden upon the Saviour and trouble himself no further, a pillow upon which he lulls his conscience to sleep, till he drops into perdition; but a living and vigorous principle, working by love, and inseparably connected with true repentance as its motive and with holy obedience as its fruits. "
--Unknown
"Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there. "
--Unknown
"What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve; wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is God. A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no farther, is none. "
--Unknown
"Faith is deferential incredulity. "
--Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
"Systems exercise the mind; but faith enlightens and guides it. "
--Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
"This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. "
--Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
"That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed. "
--William Wake
"Deep faith eliminates fear. "
--Lech Walesa
"Faith, though it hath sometimes a trembling hand, it must not have a withered hand, but must stretch. "
--Sir William Watson
"As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. "
--Archbishop Richard Whately
"Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God. "
--William Whewell
"The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. "
--John Greenleaf Whittier
"The faith of immortality gives to every mind that cherishes it a certain firmness of texture. "
--Dr. Samuel Wilberforce
"Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is dead. "
--Daniel Wilson
"Our life must answer for our faith. "
--Thomas Wilson
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a place to live. "
--George Edward Woodberry
"The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. "
--George Edward Woodberry
"Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. "
--William Wordsworth
"One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. "
--William Wordsworth

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