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Elizabeth Clephane

I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding-place: I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of his face; Content to let the world go by, To know no gain nor loss; My sinful self my only shame, My glory, all the cross.

Robert Ferguson

What can that faith do for him in his need? It teaches him to bear adversity With patience that may shame a better creed.

Carl Gustav Jung

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can

Kahlil Gibran

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Thomas Kempis

He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, sti

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and

Ceasar Rodriguez, Jr.

God makes Man, His first priority. But, Man makes God his last resort.

William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Emmanuel Teney

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Lillian Smith

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

E. M. Forster

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

B. C. Forbes

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

John Donne

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

John Dewey

To me faith means not worrying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

George Frost Kennan

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

Real Live Preacher

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

George E. Woodberry

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Unknown

Doubt vs. Faith Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high. Doubt questions,'Who believes' Faith answers,'I'.

Wystan Hugh Auden

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

HANNAH MORE: _Dan and Jane._

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.

Eric Hoffer

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

Fidel Castro

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

Dan Barker

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Saint Augustine

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Hebrews 111-2 Bible

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval.

John Dalberg

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Vince Lombardi

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Dwight Lyman Moody

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Vernon Schutz

Defeated enemies in battle have to confess the superiority of their captors, but this does not give them citizenship in that country. This is why as ambassadors for Christ we beseech people to be reconciled to God by faith in Christ now. If they confess Him as Lord with a heart of faith--now, while the doors of salvation are wide open, they will be saved (Rom. 109,10). Later they are forced to confess His Lordship to vindicate Christ's righteous judgment of them and the worthiness of their eternal doom. Confession does not bring the confessor salvation. It is too late, for the 'accepted time' for salvation has forever passed.

Samuel Butler

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

Unknown

Faith is believeing in something That sometimes doesn't always seem logical.

Bible

Faith without works is dead.

John Owen

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.

William Adams

Faith is a continuation of reason.

William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Athenus

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with.

John Dewey

To me faith means not worrying.

Thornton

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Roy R. Gilson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.

Heinrich Heine

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Faith Baldwin

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

American Indian Proverb

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

James William Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Wilson Mizner

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

R. A. Torrey

I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Charles Hodge

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Kahlil Gibran

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

God's Little Instruction Book

Sorrow looks back... Worry looks around... But, faith looks up.

D. Elton Trueblood

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxiii., St. 1.

Whose faith, has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form.

John Donne

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Henry Christopher Bailey

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

B. B. Warfield

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can???t be taken on its own merits.

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God???s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I ha

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

"Faith which does not doubt is a dead faith." -- Unamuno

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Computers run on faith, not electrons.

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

'Faith' means not _wanting_ to know what is true. -- Nietzshe

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.