Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Martin Luther

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Martin Luther

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

Martin Luther

Faith is under the left nipple.

Martin Luther

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Martin Luther

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Martin Luther

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

Martin Luther

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

Nance O'Neil

... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Moses

Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.

Philip James Bailey

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Paulo Coelho

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Niels Bohr

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

John Wooden

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Mason Cooley

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

Mason Cooley

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Mason Cooley

Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

Mason Cooley

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Mason Cooley

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Mason Cooley

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Mary Kay Ash

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

Patti LaBelle

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

Patti LaBelle

Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

Oscar Wilde

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Louis Kronenberger

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Michael Ramsey

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.