faith
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
4 other sayings from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Faith is a passionate intuition.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
11 thoughts from William Ellery Channing
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
9 quotes from Robert Collier
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
12 views from Thornton Wilder
I've lost my faith in science.
21 views from Bette Davis
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
42 more thoughts from Josh Billings
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
38 more quotes from William Hazlitt
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
5 more views from Oliver Cromwell
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
81 other quotes from William Shakespeare
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
4 more quotes from David Brainerd
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
6 quotes from Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with piety.
6 other views from Karl Barth
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
35 other thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
22 other wisdom & wit from Soren Kierkegaard
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
6 sayings from Francis Quarles
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
43 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
God enters by a private door into every individual.
135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
10 more wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
23 other views from E. W. Howe
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
10 quotes from Novalis
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
22 sayings from Robert Browning
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
22 sayings from James Dyson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
24 views from Joseph Addison
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
3 other thoughts from Jacqueline Cochran
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
3 quotes from Julia Ward Howe
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
12 wisdom & wit from Marquis de Sade
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
3 thoughts from Anna Letitia Barbauld
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
57 wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
58 more thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
31 more wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
Fear clogs faith liberates.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
15 other quotes from Norman Cousins
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
12 thoughts from Marquis de Sade
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
15 thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
31 sayings from Helen Keller
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
10 more sayings from William Ralph Inge
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
5 thoughts from Hattie McDaniel
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
4 quotes from Matthew Simpson
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
4 views from Matthew Simpson
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
4 more thoughts from Matthew Simpson
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
3 quotes from George A. Smith
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
4 sayings from Matthew Simpson
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
31 views from Eric Hoffer
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
5 quotes from Oswald Chambers
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
3 other sayings from Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Faith never makes a confession.
117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
5 more quotes from Aphra Behn
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
6 other sayings from Emily Bronte
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
3 more views from John Paul Jones
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
7 other wisdom & wit from John Calvin
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
19 other quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
31 more quotes from Eric Hoffer
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
7 views from Claude Bernard
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
31 more wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
10 thoughts from Hermann Hesse
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
31 more quotes from Eric Hoffer
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
3 more quotes from Mary McLeod Bethune
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
19 other quotes from E. B. White
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
3 more thoughts from Dorothy Thompson
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
6 quotes from Abraham Cahan
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
5 quotes from Irving Babbitt
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
18 more sayings from Mother Teresa
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
11 sayings from Paul Tillich
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
2 sayings from Hans Urs von Balthasar
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
11 more quotes from Paul Tillich
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
11 more quotes from Paul Tillich
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
13 sayings from Herman Melville
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
4 views from Stanley Baldwin
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
4 views from Felix Adler
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
2 views from Walter Lang
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
2 quotes from Kenneth Scott Latourette
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
24 more quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
6 other quotes from Francis Parker Yockey
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
9 views from Elizabeth I
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
12 other views from Miguel de Unamuno
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
23 views from T. S. Eliot
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
12 quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
12 sayings from Miguel de Unamuno
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
24 other quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
4 more sayings from Patsy Cline
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
6 other wisdom & wit from Francis Parker Yockey
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
103 other sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
13 quotes from Mahalia Jackson
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
4 quotes from Aleister Crowley
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
4 other quotes from Franz Liszt
Non-violence is the article of faith.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
100 more thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
15 quotes from William Penn
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
3 sayings from Jonathan Edwards
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To me faith means not worrying.
9 views from John Dewey
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
8 other sayings from Thomas Browne
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
8 other quotes from Thomas Browne
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.
32 more quotes from Martin Luther
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
11 other views from Bruce Lee
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
32 other quotes from Martin Luther
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
78 quotes from Voltaire
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
3 more quotes from George Edward Moore
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
32 more quotes from Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
32 other quotes from Martin Luther
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
10 thoughts from Louisa May Alcott
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
25 other sayings from C. S. Lewis
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Pray, and let God worry.
32 more sayings from Martin Luther
Reason is the enemy of faith.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
3 quotes from Ellen G. White
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
3 quotes from Ellen G. White
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
6 views from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
52 views from Albert Camus
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
Duty cannot exist without faith.
75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
3 sayings from Lillian Smith
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
5 other quotes from Albert Pike
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
5 wisdom & wit from George Whitefield
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
14 thoughts from Heinrich Heine
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
5 quotes from Jean Racine
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
58 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
4 thoughts from Christina Rossetti
The principle part of faith is patience.
12 more sayings from George MacDonald
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 quotes from Alexander Smith
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
7 wisdom & wit from John Greenleaf Whittier
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
5 more quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
68 sayings from Samuel Butler
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
11 thoughts from Douglas MacArthur
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
16 quotes from Alan Watts
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
16 thoughts from Alan Watts
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
16 quotes from Alan Watts
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
19 thoughts from Anton Chekhov
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
Faith is not contrary to reason.
3 quotes from Sherwood Eddy
Faith is reason grown courageous.
3 other quotes from Sherwood Eddy
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
2 other quotes from William Ames
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
40 more quotes from William James
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.
3 other quotes from Francis Beaumont
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
26 other quotes from E. M. Forster
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
5 quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
2 other sayings from Benjamin Whichcote
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
21 thoughts from Abu Bakr
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
20 views from Thomas Aquinas
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
14 thoughts from Loretta Young
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
23 quotes from Helen Rowland
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
40 thoughts from William James
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
10 quotes from John Donne
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
40 quotes from William James
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
10 views from Tertullian
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
3 other thoughts from Sherwood Eddy
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
4 more quotes from William Gurnall
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
4 sayings from William Gurnall
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
2 quotes from Herbert Croly
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
3 quotes from Romain Rolland
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
16 sayings from Havelock Ellis
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
25 thoughts from Simone Weil
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
31 more quotes from Thomas Paine
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
7 other quotes from Georges Bernanos
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
8 sayings from Dwight L. Moody
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
5 views from Thomas More
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
22 more thoughts from Henry Adams
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
6 thoughts from Charles Lindbergh
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
22 other quotes from Henry Adams
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
5 wisdom & wit from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
30 thoughts from George Washington
Only faith is sufficient.
2 quotes from Robert Ley
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
4 wisdom & wit from Robert Burton
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
3 thoughts from David Sarnoff
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
3 quotes from David Livingstone
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
16 wisdom & wit from Michelangelo
God always takes the simplest way.
105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
18 quotes from Joseph Campbell
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
9 sayings from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
4 other sayings from Jean Ingelow
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
23 more quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
5 other sayings from Augustus Hare
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
2 other sayings from Michael Polanyi