Faith Related Qoutes
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
Albert Einstein
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal
Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
Dorothy Thompson
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy Thompson
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
E. B. White
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
Who so loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.
Elizabeth Gilbert
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.
Gladys Taber
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions -- social, economic, and political -- of the common life.
James Luther Adams
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not theend of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now.
Joanna Russ
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
John A. Hutchinson
The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.
Lizette W. Reese
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Marian Wright Edelman
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.
Paul Tillich
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
Thomas Jefferson ( letter to Connecticut Baptists )
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden
Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth