Faith Quotes - Page 64

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

A faithful person who prays regularly does not go and plant bombs here and there. It is just people who pretend to be Muslims, those who depict themselves as Muslims, who perpetrate bombings, or Darwinists who make it clear that they are terrorists or communists who commit terrorism. Consequently, they are all Darwinists.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.

What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.