Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simeon

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

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.

Payne Stewart

Where I was with my faith last year and where I am now is leaps and bounds.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Where in the world is a single-party government called a dictatorship? What's wrong with it when people have faith in me?

Laurel Lea

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Alexander MacLaren

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

We're going to survey the hotels and motels in town. There's a real nice shelter at Family Faith Church, ... and we're going to solicit the hotels and see what comes out of it. The hotel population right now is still between 500 and 600.

Oscar Wilde

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

C. J. Mahaney

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

Carl Jung

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Carl Jung

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important

Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promise land.

Billy Sunday

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Bill Moyers

When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

Bernard de Mandeville

Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Horton Cooley

Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.

Beth Moore

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love...

Bernard of Clairvaux

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Benny Hinn

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.