Quotes and Sayings About Faith
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
-- A. C. Dixon -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
-- Abraham Joshua HeschelSource : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
-- Abraham KuyperSource : Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
-- Abu Hanifa -
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
-- Adam Gopnik -
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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
-- Adam Rickitt -
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
-- Adam Schiff -
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The needs of the times will teach you what to do.
-- Adolph Kolping -
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The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
-- Adolph Kolping -
And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.
-- Adrienne von SpeyrSource : Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press
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Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
-- Aelred of Rievaulx -
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 MilleSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.
-- Alan Cohen -
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord
-- Alan Redpath -
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
-- Alan Watts -
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
-- Alan Watts -
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
-- Alan Watts -
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.
-- Alan Watts -
The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.
-- Alanus de Rupe -
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
-- Albert Camus -
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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
-- Albert Einstein -
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
-- Albert Einstein