Quotes
Quotes about Faith
I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air, mad with life, dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount--faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land.
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith,--that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism. When the "cross" became the "foolishness" of the cross, it took possession of the masses.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Be thou faithful unto death.
On atheism: I see it as a divinely bestowed state of other emptiness, a sort of dark night of the soul, into which the ultimate effulgence will rush unaware, and the unfaith become faith
Religion deals in faith, not proof.
'It is warmth,' he thought, 'that we are finally faithful to.'
Catholicism is, in a paradox, a bigger thing than the faith. It is a kind of nationality one is stuck with forever. Or, rather, a supranationality that makes one despise small patriotisms
They are fools to cry up the Old Faith by dying for it. A man will best keep his faith alive by himself keeping alive
It is faith in beauty that is eternal, so long as there are eyes to see it
Religion and sex spoke equally of life; they met in the agricultural myths out of which the most sophisticated faiths had been generated.
I believe that a man should be faithful to his beliefs
The final road is back to the unformed mentality of childhood. Faith and loyalty and duty. Faith cannot move forward to new loyalties and duties
Love should be a lasting thing, and faith and love should go together
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
