Quotes
Quotes about Faith
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses muchmore; he who loses faith loses all.
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
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.
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
Those of little faith are of little hatred.
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Faith is not contrary to reasonâ¦.
When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point. Thus by denigrating prevailing beliefs and loyalties, the militant man of words unwittingly creates in the disillusioned masses a hunger for faith. For the majority of people cannot endure the barrenness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves. Thus, in spite of himself, the scoffing man of words becomes the precursor of a new faith.
"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
