Quotes by American Authors - Page 177

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
Thomas Merton
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
Helen Keller
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nobody has ever measured not even poets how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love.
Rick Warren
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
George Lancaster Spalding
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Robert Collyer
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
Carter Lindberg
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
James Russell Lowell
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking Knowing God's own time is best In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
William James
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.
Hosea Ballou
Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
Ruth Benedict
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Lucy Ellman
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Father! Blessed word.
Maria S. Cummins
Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Alice Childress
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.
Sam J. Ervin
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
Paul Tillich
Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith
Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.
David S. Muzzey
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
Eric Hoffer
Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.
Cullen Hightower
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.
George A. Buttrick
Faith is the soul's adventure.
William Bridges
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is the only known cure for fear.
Lena K. Sadler
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
Elizabeth O. Smith
Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Arthur M. Ramsey
Faith is ... knowing with your heart.
N. Richard Nash
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
Josh Billings
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.
Louis L'Amour
Faith is a curious thing It must be renewed it has its own spring.
Gladys Taber
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
Helen Keller
I pray hard work hard and leave the rest to God.
Florence Griffith Joyner
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton