Quotes by Authors - Page 183

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
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
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 a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.
Thomas Hobbes
Faith is the soul's adventure.
William Bridges
Faith is the proper name of religious experience.
John Baillie
Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.
Anonymous
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 is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Arthur M. Ramsey
Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
E.M. Forster
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
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller
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
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
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.
Nina Voronel
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
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
Søren Kierkegaard
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
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anonymous
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
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Miguel de Unamuno
For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
Julius Charles Hare
Loving is half of believing.
Victor Hugo
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
Marianne Moore
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.
Anonymous
So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
William Barclay
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
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Henry Christopher Bailey
Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.
James Schouler
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
C.S. Lewis
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
Jerzy Lee Stanislaw
It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
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
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
Therese of Lisieux
The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.
Therese of Lisieux
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
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Elizabeth Goudge
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
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
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