Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Vladimir Lenin

Trust is good, but control is better.

Wayne Dyer

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.

Wayne Williams

A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines.

Walker Percy

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

W. H. Auden

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

W. H. Auden

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

Wayne Dyer

Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real.

Venerable Bede

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

Van Morrison

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

Van Morrison

Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember... when life made more sense... Take me back, take me back, take me way back... to when life made more sense.

Van Morrison

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

Van Morrison

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Van Morrison

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay...

Van Morrison

Let go into the Mystery, let yourself go. You've got to open up your heart, that's all I know. Trust what I say and do what you're told, and baby, all your dirt will turn into gold.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Robertson Davies

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Robert Southwell

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Walt Whitman

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name....

Walt Whitman

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Willard Van Orman Quine

An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.

Ronald Reagan

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Saint Augustine

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Saint Augustine

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

Saint Augustine

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

Saint Augustine

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.