The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
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.
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.
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.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
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.
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
He who loses faith, loses all.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me,
than in half the creeds.
Believe me,
than in half the creeds.
Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
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.
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school?s curriculum.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
Faith without works is dead.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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.
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.
Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.
Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
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.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent.
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.