Faith Quotes - Page 40

• I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

  Michelle Shocked

  Soul, Devil, Slippery Slope

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• The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Men, Uncertain

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• As followers of Christ, we must remember always to build our defense of the Christian faith on the sure foundation of the Bible. If we do so, there will be no weight too great to be supported; no wind too strong to be resisted.

  Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

  Christian, Strong, Wind

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• The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Self, Tree

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Friendship, Goes On, Return

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• Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

  Michael Ramsey

  Attitude, Mean, Mind

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• Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

  Patti LaBelle

  Strong, Lying, Giving

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• Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Opportunity, Hands, Land

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• When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

  Bill Moyers

  People, Effort, Doubt

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• Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in every situation. Faith is free and available to all people at all times. It only requires that one fully embrace possibility, and the ultimate value is in the depth of the embrace.

  Patch Adams

  Impact, People, Profound

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• It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead. Some people use faith as a reason to remain stuck. They often say, "I have faith, so I'm waiting." But faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it's time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.

  Betty Eadie

  Moving, Order, People

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• Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

  George MacDonald

  Doors, Doubt, Looks

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13031, Delphi Classics

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• Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Memories, Believe

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• I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Thinking, Belief, Willing

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

  John Henry Newman

  Brother, Rights, Parent

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Sight, Age

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• A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2205, Manonmani Publishers

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• Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Pride

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1271, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Duty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3690, Manonmani Publishers

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• Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

  Swami Vivekananda

  Atheist, Believe, Stronger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illumination, Belief, Ultimate

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.213, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Mistake, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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• Have faith in your destiny

  Swami Vivekananda

  Destiny, Have Faith, Your Destiny

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1339, Manonmani Publishers

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• Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Needs

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

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• Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Proud, Ashamed, Ancestor

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

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