Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Carter Heyward

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Benjamin Franklin

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Charles Wesley

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Edward Egan

What made Wellington Mara was his faith and his family, ... He has run the race of life, and he has won. Wellington Mara was a giant in every sense of the word.

David Gregory

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

William Shakespeare

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

David Green

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

Tim Ryan

Our government must celebrate, honor, and remember these faithful men and women through its actions.

Michael Connelly

Our goal with this legislation, as well as our mission as faith-based, non-profit hospitals, is to help the most vulnerable in society, in this case, those without health insurance.

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Estelle

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.

Lewis B. Smedes

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?

Leila Aboulela

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

Dan Brown

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.

Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light...

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

Victoria Osteen

Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

Barbara Ehrenreich

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.