If I could choose what of all things would be at the same time the most delightful and useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for this makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly ones vanish; throws over the decay of existence the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death; makes even torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of the future, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.
—Humphry Davy (1778–1829) British Chemist, Science Propagandist
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) American Journalist, Educator, Author
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing which they deny.—It is superior to their testimony, but never opposed to it.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.
—John Bunyan (1628–88) English Puritan Writer, Preacher
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
—Unknown
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
Without faith it is impossible to please God, and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
—William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) English Anglican Clergyman, Priest, Mystic
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American Baptist Minister
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
—Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessman, Lawyer
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
—Mary Manin Morrissey (b.1949) American Christian Religious Leader, Teacher
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist, it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart—then no problem.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Leader, Civil Rights Advocate, Author
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) English Poet
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
—Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Theologian
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
—Charles Spurgeon (1834–92) English Baptist Preacher
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
There never was found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or sect, or religion, or law, or discipline, which did so highly exalt the good of the community, and increase private and particular good as the holy Christian faith.—Hence, it clearly appears that it was one and the same God that gave the Christian law to men, who gave the laws of nature to the creatures.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
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