Faith Quotes - Page 73

I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.

If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But family and friends and faith are what really matter in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

I walk by faith, not by sight.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

Remember why you are here and why you are alive. Have faith in your dreams no matter how far they might seem.

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.