Optimism 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 WieselInfinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma GandhiYou 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 GandhiTechnology 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 JobsIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinFaith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan WattsIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsFaith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise PascalBelief 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 PascalThe 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.
AristotleFaith 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.
BuddhaFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesTo 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 WattsBut the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan WattsAnyone 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.
Eleanor RooseveltHave 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 GibranOn 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.
BuddhaAlongside 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.
Sai BabaBelieve 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.
Sai BabaBe a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin LutherConcentrated complete faith - that alone can bring victory.
Sai BabaFor 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. EliotThe 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.
Mitt RomneyA 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 DisraeliTo disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.
Louis L'AmourChristianity 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 RomneyWhy fear when I am here? Put all your faith in Me. I shall guide you and guard you.
Sai BabaNever be unfaithful to a lover except with your wife.
P. J. O'RourkeOur 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonDo 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 BabaWOMEN 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 BabaThey 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 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 BabaThere is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFaith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. BushBe confirmed in the faith that He is the doer of every deed. That is the genuine giving up .
Sai BabaEvery man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.
Sai BabaAt least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
Richard DawkinsFear clogs, faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise PascalNow 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 ZiglarMost 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 AssisiThe 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 GibranMen 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 SpurgeonSaving 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 SpurgeonFaith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.
Sai BabaMy 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 ObamaLove we say is life, but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardFaith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.
Sai BabaRespect the differences between the faiths and recognize them as valid so far as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.
Sai BabaIt 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 PascalNo 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 RomneyThose 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 BabaOnly our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe 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 BabaWe 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 AvilaFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire