All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
James Matthew BarrieOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen KellerThe opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie WieselWhat I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of his own opinion.
Anne Robert Jacques TurgotInfinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma GandhiCreate the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah WinfreyWhere 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.
Sai BabaYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma GandhiFaith is the evidence of the unseen.
Maya AngelouFaith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.
Mahatma GandhiTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan WattsFaith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas AquinasTechnology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve JobsFaith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind, it dies.
Mahatma GandhiIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinI respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson MiznerYou pray in your distress and in your need, would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil GibranFaith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel OsteenFaith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan WattsBe faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother TeresaIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsHaving trust and faith in your own country, you won't try to put down any other country.
Sai BabaSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve JobsBut for my faith in God I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma GandhiBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain you gain all, if you lose you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He exists.
Blaise PascalFaithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
ConfuciusFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard DawkinsSome men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
AristotleBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre GideFaith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward BeecherUnwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma GandhiFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster FullerHealth is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BuddhaThe keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph MarstonNon-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma GandhiA small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma GandhiFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath TagoreFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesNon-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiTo follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerGod didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
Mother TeresaMy secret is simple - I pray.
Mother TeresaAnd the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
Alan WattsIf you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin FranklinBut the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan WattsThere are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoI haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy GrahamHave faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.
Sai BabaI have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeFaith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil GibranIf patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mahatma GandhiOn a long journey of human life faith is the best of companions, it is the best refreshment on the journey, and it is the greatest property.
BuddhaThere 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 GandhiBe a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin LutherMy faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
Dalai LamaAnyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin LutherOur faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonConcentrated complete faith - that alone can bring victory.
Sai BabaFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric HofferHave faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then you can have peace and joy whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.
Sai BabaForgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason CooleyFaith is to believe what you do not see, the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint AugustineReason is the enemy of faith.
Martin LutherFor love would be love of the wrong thing, there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
T. S. EliotIt's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince LombardiIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William JamesLet us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race, we kept them free, we kept the faith.
Ronald ReaganA mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope, and feel love.
Robert H. SchullerIf there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh BillingsThose who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.
Sai BabaTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future, nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyTake away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.
Eric HofferWhatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William JamesA great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest, Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.
Benjamin DisraeliDuty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin DisraeliNot brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas CarlyleVedanta is the legitimate property of every section every caste every community and every race of the followers of any faith and persons of both sexes.
Sai BabaThe infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.
Alice WalkerWhen you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith, when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Anton ChekhovTake the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.
Louis L'AmourFor me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. WilsonPeople define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians they're not all growing in their faith they're not all active but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
Joel OsteenThe smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David ThoreauWe can never learn too much of His will towards us too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. RockefellerTo know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric HofferHave no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you therefore no harm can befall you, all is very very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul IIIf you place complete faith in the Lord at all times you will receive His Grace. Grace takes away the pain of Karma. The Lord can save man completely from Karma.
Sai BabaAnd that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families, for our joy, our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.
Mitt RomneyFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise PascalFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TolkienIt is the height of foolishness to loose faith in God when someone you care for dies. The sentence that he earned is over and he is released.
Sai BabaChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyIf you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaAll who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin LutherFaith - you can do very little with it but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel ButlerIt strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with, instead of blessed with.
Mitt RomneyWhy fear when I am here? Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you and guard you.
Sai BabaFaith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich NietzscheNever be unfaithful to a lover except with your wife.
P. J. O'RourkeThe improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority as such. For him skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas HuxleyIf faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami VivekanandaFaith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Martin LutherNote too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
OvidFaith is a living daring confidence in God's grace so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin LutherDo not allow any circumstances to affect your faith in God who is your strength and solace.
Sai BabaThere is a strange glow on the face of a guileless person. Inner cleanliness has its own soap and water - the soap of strong faith and the water of constant practice.
Sai BabaA man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history, therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold NiebuhrNo matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton ChekhovWOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land women are adored and revered.
Sai BabaThe only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell LowellBad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason CooleyFaith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see, it is above not against them.
Blaise PascalOur problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. GardnerOnly the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich FrommEcclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas HuxleyThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinIf I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf he have faith the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin LutherPainting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van GoghA better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthurLet the different faiths exist, let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.
Sai BabaIt is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas PaineThe power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Augustus HareWe like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise PascalThey are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Nestell BoveeFaith can affect even inanimate objects.
Sai BabaDo not allow doubt to distract you, if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity you can win a vision of My Reality.
Sai BabaAn atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone WeilFaith Hill is a big role model.
Taylor SwiftThe man of science has learned to believe in justification not by faith but by verification.
Thomas HuxleyBy any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WilsonIt 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. MoodyMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert SchweitzerIt's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNo religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.
Sai Baba'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason CooleyBe steady have faith and reach the Goal safe.
Sai BabaOn life's journey faith is nourishment virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him.
BuddhaThe tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith Self-less service and the process of Dedication.
Sai BabaBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WilsonNonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma GandhiFor modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander PopeThe man who radiates good cheer who makes life happier wherever he meets it is always a man of vision and faith.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThere is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord TennysonA faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor HugoThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesHe that rebels against reason is a real rebel but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith than George the Third.
Thomas PaineEarn the qualifications - holiness purity faith and universal love - then He will approach you on foot to console comfort and save. If you have purity of heart and mastery over the senses His Grace is your right.
Sai BabaYou can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel ButlerFaith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.
Henry David ThoreauFaith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. BushWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.
PlatoAlways be yourself express yourself have faith in yourself do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce LeeGod is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
Desmond TutuHold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
ConfuciusWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore VidalFaith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David ThoreauBe confirmed in the faith that He is the doer of every deed. That is the genuine giving up .
Sai BabaHow many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de MontaigneFaith is the great cop-out the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of even perhaps because of the lack of evidence.
Richard DawkinsWhat another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it, what another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre GideI've lost my faith in science.
Bette DavisMy parents shared not only an improbable love they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name Barack or blessed believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack ObamaA good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HoraceAt times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.
Sai BabaFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise PascalFaith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.
Martin LutherTo me faith means not worrying.
John DeweyBe courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. EdisonAt least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
Richard DawkinsIn other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan WattsFear clogs, faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardBe like the Star which never wavers from the Crescent but is fixed in steady faith.
Sai BabaDo I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes I do.
George W. BushFaith in oneself is the best and safest course.
MichelangeloIntolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma GandhiIt is with faith that one should take up social service.
Sai BabaIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise PascalLets have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham LincolnSome men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.
AristotleWhat I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack ObamaI have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeGod designed in different faiths, adored by different human communities, are all limbs of the One God that really is.
Sai BabaNow it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist ' says God `for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.' `But ' says Man `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist and so therefore by your own arguments you don't. QED.' `Oh dear ' says God `I hadn't thought of that ' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh that was easy ' says Man and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas AdamsThe foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty character integrity faith love and loyalty.
Zig ZiglarWhat is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel ButlerFaith in the God within is the toughest shield against the thrusts of Fate.
Sai BabaIf you have no faith you've lost your battle.
Bill CosbySure I am this day we are masters of our fate that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength, that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win victory will not be denied us.
Winston ChurchillMost High glorious God enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope and perfect charity, sense and knowledge, Lord, that I might carry out Your holy and true command.
Francis of AssisiFaith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
E. M. ForsterBase souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
Jacques Yves CousteauBe like the lions in the spiritual field rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.
Sai BabaThere are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John WoodenThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsFaith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil GibranTo one who has faith no explanation is necessary. To one without faith no explanation is possible.
Thomas AquinasMen and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
Mitt RomneyWe have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way, but if we turn to the left generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles SpurgeonHave faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave how can you get faith in the ocean?
Sai BabaA library implies an act of faith.
Victor HugoThe truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic not gifted with the necessary scientific learning presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas AquinasEven the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason CooleyAll faiths are inter-related and mutually indebted to each other for the principles they teach and the disciplines they recommended.
Sai BabaFaith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.
Sai BabaOur faith is faith in someone else's faith and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William JamesMy family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack ObamaHold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas AquinasLiberty cannot be established without morality nor morality without faith.
Alexis de TocquevilleBy faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint AugustineTo love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYou know my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack ObamaFaith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Mason CooleyFaith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.
Sai BabaI have come not to disturb or destroy any faith but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian the Muslim a better Muslim and the Hindu a better Hindu.
Sai BabaUltimately blind faith is the only kind.
Mason CooleyThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery woman and every man is God the Father's wife when the faithful soul is joined to our Lord Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.
Francis of AssisiRespect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.
Sai BabaThe best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis BaconDeath came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
Winston ChurchillIt 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 PascalFaith is the sense of life that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo TolstoyNo person I have ever met not even the most righteous or pure of heart has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
Mitt RomneyWhen a man must force himself to be faithful in his love this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton ChekhovWhere there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric HofferI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. ForsterEach party steals so many articles of faith from the other and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. MenckenThose who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.
Sai BabaConfidence... thrives on honesty on honor on the sacredness of obligations on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. RooseveltI had faith in Israel before it was established I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. TrumanWe don't really need reviewers just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
Carroll O'ConnorHave faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life a life devoted to the service of the weak, a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God.
Sai BabaTo insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time faith is not enough a police force is needed as well.
Albert CamusI don't have to have faith I have experience.
Joseph CampbellOnly our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWriting is an act of faith not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WhiteThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai BabaThe mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone WeilWe must not sit still and look for miracles, up and doing and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains through faith in Christ Jesus will do anything.
George EliotBack 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 MillerWe know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls or who dwells within them or how precious they are those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
Saint Teresa of AvilaIf you think you can win you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William HazlittEvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VoltaireLife is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold NiebuhrA casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche