Faith Quotes - Page 24

• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Mental Health, Process

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.

  Peter Canisius

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.

  Gardner C. Taylor

  God, Christian, Confidence

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• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.50

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• Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Success, Believe, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from May 20, 2013

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• The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

  Augustus Hare

  Character, Shining, Glitter

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• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Authority

  'Essays' (1841) 'The Over-Soul'

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• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

  Antoni Zygmund

  Science, Light, Shining

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• My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Reason

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

  Edith Hamilton

  Decision, Facts, Logic

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

  Samuel Butler

  Motivation, Littles, Christianity

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4356, Delphi Classics

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• The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

  Carl Jung

  Majority, Patient, Lost

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Religious, Survival

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• Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Real, Mean, Knowing

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.24, Multnomah

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• Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, What If, Newborn

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• If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.

  Francis Quarles

  Exercise, Doubt, Despair

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• Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Infinite, Subtle, Chains

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• A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Triumph

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Christian, Paradoxical

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• If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  God, Christian, Religious

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• For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Jesus, Believe

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• Be BLESSED-spirit, soul, body and financially.

  Kenneth Copeland

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  God, Christian, Confidence

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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