Quotes by American Authors - Page 178

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.
Harriette Arnow
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.
John Jay Chapman
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Shirley Maclaine
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.
W.H. Auden
Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart consisting mainly of belief and trust.
E. T. Hiscox
Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings
Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?
Ann Kiemel
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Sonia Johnson
In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.
Verne Becker
My faith has wavered but has saved me.
Helen Hayes
For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy
The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.
James Schouler
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.
Anne Bradstreet
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
Marlene Dietrich
Your faith is what you believe not what you know.
John Lancaster Spalding
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
Vance Havner
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.
Terry Tempest Williams
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
Joan Osborne
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
Katheryn Hulme
In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara De Angelis
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.
Pearl Bailey
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.
Alice Neel
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Elbert Hubbard
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
Charles Horton Cooley
As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.
Marianne Moore
We must have infinite faith in each other.
Henry David Thoreau
God is universal confined to no spot defined by no dogma appropriated by no sect.
Mary Baker Eddy
Patience with others is Love Patience with self is Hope Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
Christina Baldwin
Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.
Mary Parker Follett
I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.
Lynn V. Andrews
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Starhawk
Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katherine Graham
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
It is not easy but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes the better.
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
Margaret Collier Graham
Most people don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
John L. Beckley
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier
Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden
How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons