Quotes about faith
faith firm flag loyalty military police remained uniform
The military and the police have never been as professional as they are now. Adventurism is a thing of the past. Loyalty to the flag is firm and the people's faith in the uniform remained unsullied.
faith neither tried word
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
faith judicial nomination position united
the faith of a person should not be a consideration on their nomination or confirmation for any judicial position in the United States. Ken Salazar
faith conversations-with-god function
It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest. Neale Donald Walsch
faith dream simple
Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive, and our dreams come true.
faith roots insignificant
Faith takes root in the insignificant. Nancy Willard
faith religious healing
Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity? Mike Mason
faith religious sacrifice
True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.
faith religious pain
The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're looking to get control of all your problems, forget Christianity. If you're looking for success, happiness, or freedom from pain, forget Christ. The way of Christ is the cross, and the cross spells weakness, poverty, failure, death.
faithful remember being-faithful
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. Marcel Proust
faith atheist religion
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison
faith mind church
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith. Jose Saramago
faith real mean
Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it. Joni Eareckson Tada
faith religious moments
How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?
faith religious suffering
The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.
faith uplifting art
Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.
faith religious suffering
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
faith believe long
Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
faith law world
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. Jonathan Swift
faith real book
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is. Khaled Hosseini
faith powerful forever
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. Khalil Gibran
faith stars heart
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
faith uplifting philosophical
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
faith religious past
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different. Jonathan Sacks
faith men thinking
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty. Jacob Bronowski
faith might belief
I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver. Louise Erdrich
faith hard practice work
The hard work is pretty much over right now. They need to keep working hard in practice and have faith that things will work out at the end of the season.
faith certainty probability
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing. James Anthony Froude
faith people forever
Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge. Jacques Ellul
faith queens heaven
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come. Henry Adams
faith mother children
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept. Henry George
faith blessing baptism
Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments. Heber J. Grant
faith wise bad-ass
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi