Famous Faith Quotes
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
A library implies an act of faith.
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.