957 private quotes tagged faith

“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine

0 favs

“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.” — James Freeman Clarke

0 favs

“Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.” — John Donne

0 favs

“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.” — Pope Paul VI

0 favs

“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.” — G. I. Gurdjieff

0 favs

“Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.” — Dwight L. Moody

0 favs

“Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.” — Paul Brunton

0 favs

“Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.” — Miguel de Unamuno

0 favs

“I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.” — Kathy Ireland

0 favs

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

0 favs

“No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.” — Desmond Morris

0 favs

“May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?” — W. H. Auden

0 favs

“Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.” — Barbara Smith

0 favs

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

0 favs

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.” — Irving Babbitt

0 favs

“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.” — Thomas S. Monson

0 favs

“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

0 favs

“I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.” — Tori Amos

0 favs

“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.” — Paul Tillich

0 favs

“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.” — George Whitefield

0 favs

“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.” — Barbara Bush

0 favs

“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” — Thornton Wilder

0 favs

“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.” — Swami Vivekananda

0 favs

“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.” — Pearl S. Buck

0 favs

“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.” — Oliver Cromwell

0 favs