I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me,
than in half the creeds.
Believe me,
than in half the creeds.
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith is believeing in something That sometimes doesn't always seem logical.
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world?s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
He who loses faith, loses all.
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philophic mind.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Faith without works is dead.
Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own.
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.
Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Thank not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
Sorrow looks back... Worry looks around... But, faith looks up.