Faith quotes

Amiel Henri Frédéric 1821-1881

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercices an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Amis Sir Kingsley 1922-1995

One Fat Englishman

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

The Bible (Authorized Version)

New Testament: I Corinthians ch. 13 v.1

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I  understood as a child, I thought as a child: but  when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then  face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now adideth faith, hope, charity, these  three; but the greatest of these is charity.(Pavel the Apostle )

The Bible (Authorized Version)

New Testament: Hebrews ch.11 v.1

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Brenan Gerald 1894-1987

Thoughts in a Dry Season

Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are  really sudden explosions of faith.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„Bishop Blougram's Apology"

All we have gained then by our unbelief
Is a life of doubt diversified by faith,
For one of faith diversified by doubt:
We called the chess-board white - we call it black.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„Easter-Day"

„Tis well averred,
A scientific faith's absurd.

Cajal Santiago Ramon y

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That  which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

Essays

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Fromm Erich 1900-1980

Only the person who has faith in himself is  able to be faithful to others.

Gandhi Mahatma 1869-1948

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is  also the last article of my creed.

Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail  of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit  or even a partial faith.

Kaufmann Walter

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence  sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Kempis Thomas  1379-1471

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the  end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Lindsay Vachel 1879-1931

,,General William Booth Enters into Heaven"

Booth died blind still by faith he trod,
Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.

Lovelace Richard 1618-1658

,,To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

True; a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.

Luther Martin 1483-1546

Letter to Melanchthon

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

McClenahan John L.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be  cured by his own placebos.

McCrae John 1872-1918

„In Flanders Fields"

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

„A Jacobite's Epitaph"

To my true king I offered free from stain
Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.

Paul Saint AD 3-68

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the  evidence of things not seen.

Roosevelt Franklin D. 1882-1945

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that ... build from the bottom  up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man
at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

Candida

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Smith Stevie 1902-1971

„The Past"

People who are always praising the past
And especially the times of faith as best
Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages
And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745

Polite Conversation

Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King „Lancelot and Elaine"

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

In Memoriam A.H.H.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Thomas R.S. 1913-

„Pietà"

In the darkness ... the sound of a man
Breathing, testing his faith
On emptiness, nailing his questions
One by one to an untenanted cross.

Tillich Paul 1886-1965

Dynamics of Faith

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Villon François 1431-c.1465

Le Grand Testament „Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame"

In this faith I wish to live and to die.

Wiener Norbert 1894-1964

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength,  but one belonging to acquiescence and thence to weakness.

Wordsworth William 1770-1850

„Ode. Intimations of Immortality"

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind ...
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

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