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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FAITH 3
Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther (1483-1546, German leader of the protestant reformation)
The principal part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald (1824-1905, Scottish novelist)
Faith is a practical attitude of the will.
John MacMurray
Faith is a total attitude of the self.
John MacQuarrie
Possessing faith is not convenient.You still have to live it.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872, Italian patriot, writer)
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville (1819-1891, American author)
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992, French composer, organist)
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo (1474-1564, Italian renaissance painter, sculptor)
Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950, American poet)
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller (1891-1980, American author)
Faith makes all things possible...love makes all things easy.
Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899, American evangelist)
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More (1745-1833, British writer, reformer, philanthropist)
God has not called me to be successful; he has called me to be faithful.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -- the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary)
Faith is courage; it is creative, while despair is always destructive.
David S. Muzzey
Faith is... knowing with your heart.
Richard N. Nash
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary
Major Kira Nerys
Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way. A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us.
Charles B. Newcomb
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British religious leader, prelate, writer)
Faith... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British religious leader, prelate, writer)
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890, British religious leader, prelate, writer)
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971, American theologian, historian)
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971, American theologian, historian)
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910, British nurse)
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
Indian Proverb (Sayings of Indian origin)
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
Joan Osborne
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Charles H. Parkhurst (1842-1933, American clergyman, reformer)
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Faith is a gift of God.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Regardless of danger, I must make known the gift of God. Without fear I must spread everywhere the name of God, so that after my death I may leave a bequest to those brethren and sons whom I have baptized in the Lord.
St. Patrick
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
Anna Delaney Peale
If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.
Anna Delaney Peale
One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
Carlene Hatcher Polite
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Have faith in a stone and you will be healed by it.
Lebanese Proverb (Sayings of Lebanese origin)
God promised me a fur coat, and I am already sweating.
Polish Proverb (Sayings of Polish origin)
Pray to God, but keep rowing to the shore.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
For so must it be, and help me do my part.
Tibetan Proverb (Sayings of Tibetan origin)
What will be, will be.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
Jean Racine (1639-1699, French dramatist)
Faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Arthur M. Ramsey
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Ernest Renan (1823-1892, French writer, critic, scholar)
Faith assuages, guides, restores.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891, French poet)
Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
B.H. Roberts
I am living on hope and faith... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935, American poet)
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
Adrian Rogers
You do build in darkness if you have faith. When the light returns, you have made yourself a fortress which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble; you may even find yourself needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.
Olga Rosmanith
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
Josiah Royce (1855-1916, American philosopher)
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Elton Trueblood
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
Author Unknown
Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.
Author Unknown
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Author Unknown
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
Author Unknown
Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
Author Unknown
Faith is that strengthening power within urging me on my way, teaching me all that I must know, helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within lighting the road I trod, helping me know which way to go, pointing the way to God.
Author Unknown
Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.
Author Unknown
Faith is verification by the heart; confession by the tongue; action by the limbs.
Author Unknown
Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.
Author Unknown
Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.
Author Unknown
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.
Thomas Russell
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661, Scottish pastor)
Faith is the only known cure for fear.
Lena K. Sadler
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.
William Salter
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
George Sand (1804-1876, French novelist)
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand (1804-1876, French novelist)
Out of the chill and the shadow, Into the thrill and the shine; Out of the dearth and the famine, Into the fullness divine.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Faith is nothing at all tangible.... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object.You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Faith and doubt are both needed -- not as antagonists but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966, American author)
Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966, American author)
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829, German philosopher, critic, writer)
Reason is the triumph of the intellect, faith of the heart.
James Schouler
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green that it wakes needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.
Elizabeth Smith
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
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