Faith  

 

 

  • And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."--Minnie Haskins

     

  • Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.--Max Planck

     

  • Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.--Robert H. Schuller

     

  • Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.--Mother Teresa

     

  • Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.--Henry Ward Beecher

     

  • The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.--Leo Buscaglia

     

  • Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action.--Henry Chester

     

  • Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike

     

  • Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon

     

  • Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams

     

  • Faith is a higher faculty than reason.--Henry Christopher Bailey

     

  • Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.--Charles Henry Parkhurst (Sermons: Walking by Faith)

     

  • Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller

     

  • Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.--Ralph W. Trine

     

  • Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.--Blaise Pascal

     

  • Faith is like radar that sees through the fog--the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.--Corrie ten Boom

     

  • Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.--Edith Hamilton (Witness to the Truth)

     

  • Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.--Elton Trueblood

     

  • Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.--Sherwood Eddy

     

  • Faith is spiritualized imagination.--Henry Ward Beecher

     

  • Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

     

  • Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.--Mary McLeod Bethune

     

  • Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.--St. Augustine

     

  • Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.--Emily Dickinson

     

  • Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.--Helen Keller

     

  • Faith ... must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.--Mahatma Gandhi

     

  • Faith supplies staying power. ... Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.--Norman Vincent Peale

     

  • Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.--Philip Gulley (Home Town Tales

     

  • A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.--Fiona Macleod

     

  • I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.--William Allen White

     

  • I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.--Wilson Mizner

     

  • If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.--Mother Teresa

     

  • If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.--Mahatma Gandhi

     

  • If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.--John Locke

     

  • In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.--Schlegel

     

  • Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?--Charles Lindbergh

     

  • Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson

     

  • Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.--Mahatma Gandhi

     

  • A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.--George Macdonald (Sir Gibbie)

     

  • The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.--Thornton Wilder

     

  • Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues--faith and hope.--Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)

     

  • Reason is our soul's left hand,
    Faith her right;
    by these we reach divinity.--John Donne

     

  • Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.--Susan L. Taylor

     

  • Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.--Anonymous (Guideposts)

     

  • To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.--Lillian Smith

     

  • To me faith is not just a noun but also a verb.--Jimmy Carter

     

  • True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.--Dean William Ralph Inge ("Confessio Fidei" Outspoken Essays: Second Series)

     

  • A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.--Victor Frankl

     

  • When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.--Patrick Overton

     

  • You are a part of the universe, no less than the stars and the trees, and you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as t should.--Desiderata

     

  • You do build in darkness if you have faith. When the light returns you have made yourself a fortress which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble; you may even find yourself needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.--Olga Rosmanith 

     

  • You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.--Frank Crane

 

 

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