Faith Quotes - Page 82

Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

You just have to have a simple faith.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Let's be diligent in giving, careful in our living, and faithful in our praying.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.