Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Dickens

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Charles Spurgeon

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

Charles Spurgeon

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Alan Watts

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

We want to stay in Delray because we've been here for a long time and people know us so well. I have faith in the end that something's going to come our way.

Chogyam Trungpa

Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.

David Hume

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

David Hume

A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered.

David Brainerd

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Audrey Hepburn

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Arnold Bennett

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Arnold Bennett

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Maajid Nawaz

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

Sathya Baba

Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.