Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Brooks

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Victor Hugo

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Vikram Seth

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Viktor E. Frankl

Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Vaclav Havel

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Stephen King

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Stedman Graham

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals....

Sophie Swetchine

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

Sophie Swetchine

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

Sophie Swetchine

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

Soren Kierkegaard

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Soren Kierkegaard

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Soren Kierkegaard

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.

Swami Vivekananda

That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

Ron Suskind

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

Rumi

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Sigmund Freud

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Steven Curtis Chapman

We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.

Steven Pinker

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. And no, this isn't having "faith" in reason (in the same way that some people have faith in miracles), because we don't "believe" in reason; we use reason.

Susan L. Taylor

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Robert Burns

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Robert Burns

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

Robert Browning

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.