Quotes
Quotes about Faith
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle [Ger., Die Botschaft hor' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube; Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.]
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!
Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd!
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.
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.
O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]
Faith is a passionate intuition.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
To me faith means not worrying.
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
Faith is reason grown courageous.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
