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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The 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.

What 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.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

Oprah Winfrey

Where 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.

You 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.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Muhammad Ali

To 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. 

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Technology 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.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind, it dies.

In the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Wilson Mizner

You 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.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Having trust and faith in your own country, you won't try to put down any other country.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

But for my faith in God I should have been a raving maniac.

Faith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Belief 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.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

The 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.

If 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.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The 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.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Andre Maurois

Non-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

My secret is simple - I pray.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.

But the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education, or of government, by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.

I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If 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.

On 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.

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.

Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.

Believe that all hearts are motivated by the one and Only God - that all faiths glorify the One and the Only God, that all names in all languages and all Forms men can conceive denote the One and Only God.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

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

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Anyone 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?

Our faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual.

Concentrated complete faith - that alone can bring victory.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass will sway it from the truth and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

Have 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.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Faith is to believe what you do not see, the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

For 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.

It'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.

It 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.

Let 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.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope, and feel love.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.

To 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.

Take away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.

Whatever 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!

A 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.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness, nothing but faith faith and freedom.

Vedanta 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.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.

When 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.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase just take the first step.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

To disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.

For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

People 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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We 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.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Have 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 II

If 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.

And 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.

Faith 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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It 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.

Christianity 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.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

If you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Faith - you can do very little with it but you can do nothing without it.

It 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.

Why fear when I am here? Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you and guard you.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Never be unfaithful to a lover except with your wife.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

The 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.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

If 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.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Ovid

Faith 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.

Do not allow any circumstances to affect your faith in God who is your strength and solace.

There 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.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history, therefore we must be saved by faith.

No 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.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

WOMEN 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.

CLEANSE your emotions, passions, impulses, attitudes and reactions. That is the essence of spiritual discipline, as laid down in all Faiths.

The 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.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see, it is above not against them.

In economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Huxley

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

If 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.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Let the different faiths exist, let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

It 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.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

We 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.

They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Faith can affect even inanimate objects.

Do 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.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification not by faith but by verification.

Thomas Huxley

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

By any reasonable measure of achievement the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

E. O. Wilson

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?

Man 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.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Be steady have faith and reach the Goal safe.

On 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.

The 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.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

E. O. Wilson

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

The man who radiates good cheer who makes life happier wherever he meets it is always a man of vision and faith.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now, but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

He 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.

Earn 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.

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

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Always be yourself express yourself have faith in yourself do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

God 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.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Faith never makes a confession.

Be confirmed in the faith that He is the doer of every deed. That is the genuine giving up .

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Faith 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.

What 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.

I've lost my faith in science.

Bette Davis

My 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.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith must trample under foot all reason sense and understanding.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe, we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

To me faith means not worrying.

Be 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. Edison

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

In 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 Watts

Fear clogs, faith liberates.

Be like the Star which never wavers from the Crescent but is fixed in steady faith.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes I do.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It is with faith that one should take up social service.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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

Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.

What 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.

I 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.

God designed in different faiths, adored by different human communities, are all limbs of the One God that really is.

Sai Baba

Now 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 Adams

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty character integrity faith love and loyalty.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Faith in the God within is the toughest shield against the thrusts of Fate.

If you have no faith you've lost your battle.

Sure 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.

Most 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.

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

If 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.

Be like the lions in the spiritual field rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

There 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.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Kahlil Gibran

To one who has faith no explanation is necessary. To one without faith no explanation is possible.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

We 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 Spurgeon

Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave how can you get faith in the ocean?

A library implies an act of faith.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ accepting receiving resting upon Him alone for justification sanctification and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

The 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.

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

All faiths are inter-related and mutually indebted to each other for the principles they teach and the disciplines they recommended.

Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

My 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.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Liberty cannot be established without morality nor morality without faith.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

You know my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Love we say is life, but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Faith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.

I 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.

Ultimately blind faith is the only kind.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Every 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 Assisi

Respect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.

The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Francis Bacon

Death 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.

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

Faith 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.

No 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.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Each 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.

Those 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.

Confidence... thrives on honesty on honor on the sacredness of obligations on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

I 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.

We don't really need reviewers just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Have 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.

Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time faith is not enough a police force is needed as well.

I don't have to have faith I have experience.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar.

Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The 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.

The 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.

We 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.

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.

We 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.

If you think you can win you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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