Faith Quotes - Page 28

• Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Essentials, World, Voyages

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• If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

  Scott Hahn

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

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• I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Peace, Prayer, Godly

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• When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

  Scott Belsky

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Depression, Literature

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Pain, Real

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• The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Godly, Essence

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.205, Multnomah

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• Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Understanding, Doubt

  Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156

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• Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Angel, Hymns, Glory

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.134

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• Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Men, Sun, Gravity

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• A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sublime, Cherish, Humans

  Havelock Ellis (1930). “Fountain of Life”

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• Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Literature, Being True

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• We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Islamic, Government, Culture

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• I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Tree, Almonds, Speak

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Light, Shining, Solitude

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• In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Courage, Shadow Of Death, Produce

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• Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

  John Calvin

  Religious, Unseen, Temporal Things

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• The most important things in life are intangible.

  Thom Hartmann

  Religious, Things In Life, Important

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• God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Promise, Unshakable

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• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "My Favorite Quotations". Book Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.

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• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Anger, Holocaust, Sometimes

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

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