Faith Quotes - Page 47

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.

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.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.