faith quotes

• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [faith]
• Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains . . . But it can put mountains where there are none. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [faith/present]
• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. (Benjamin Franklin) [faith]
• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher) [take/anxiety/faith]
• Faith is spiritualized imagination. (Henry Ward Beecher) [faith/imagination]
• There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith. (John Updike) [quality/right/faith]
• All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask. (Martin Luther) [god/faith/willpower/willpower]
• Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. (Martin Luther) [faith/confidence/god]
• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. (William James) [faith]
• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Sophia Loren) [faith/people/mediocre/talent]
• Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. () [life/faith/influence]
• Society lives by faith, and develops by science. () [society/faith/science]
• Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. () [action/faith/order]
• 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? (Wystan Auden) [faith/god/faith/human]
• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. (James Baldwin) [vanity/religion/faith]
• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. (James Baldwin) [moment/faith/light]
• 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. (Francis Beaumont) [faith/bird/wings/willpower]
• Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. (Georges Bernanos) [faith/thing]
• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. () [faith]
• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. (Samuel Butler) [faith]
• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. (Samuel Butler) [faith]
• The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. (Eileen Caddy) [desire/faith/consciousness]
• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. (Albert Camus) [provide/faith/pleasure/pleasure]
• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. (Albert Camus) [time/faith]
• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. (Thomas Carlyle) [faith]
• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [love/faith]
• Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. (Marcus Cicero) [society/faith/men]
• The foundation of justice is good faith. (Marcus Cicero) [/faith]
• A man of courage is also full of faith. (Marcus Cicero) [courage/faith]
• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. (Joseph Conrad) [life/land/faith/life]
• Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency (Emily Dickinson) [faith/prudent]

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