Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Matthew Simpson

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Matthew Simpson

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Henry

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Matthew Arnold

The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

Mark Ryan

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Marilynne Robinson

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Plato

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Paula Abdul

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Lech Walesa

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Lisa Randall

Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.

John Phillips

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

Martin Luther

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

Martin Luther

Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

Martin Luther

Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.

Martin Luther

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

Martin Luther

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Martin Luther

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Martin Luther

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Martin Luther

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Martin Luther

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do...

Martin Luther

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

Martin Luther

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

Martin Luther

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Martin Luther

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.