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Quotations about Faith
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. ~Author Unknown There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. ~Lois Chartrand Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. ~Margot Asquith If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith Sunbeams out of the clouds Faith out of all my doubt. ~Terri Guillemets Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. ~Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer 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. ~Emmanuel Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. ~Judith Hanson Lasater In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. ~Michael Eric Dyson Your heart is a sun — Joy its stars, Faith a moon, shining in your darkness.... ~Terri Guillemets Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. ~C.H. Spurgeon Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~Colette Baron-Reid Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879 Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding
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