FAITH QUOTES IV

quotations about faith


Notice: Undefined variable: id in /hermes/walnacweb03/walnacweb03ak/b2149/pow.notablequote/htdocs/f/includes/quoter_subj.php on line 27

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Notice: Undefined variable: id in /hermes/walnacweb03/walnacweb03ak/b2149/pow.notablequote/htdocs/f/includes/quoter_subj.php on line 37

Table Talk


Notice: Undefined variable: id in /hermes/walnacweb03/walnacweb03ak/b2149/pow.notablequote/htdocs/f/includes/quoter_subj.php on line 63

Tags: Amos Bronson Alcott


The discoveries of science have proved that the opinions concerning a firmament above, and a flat earth beneath, are completely inaccurate; but faith delights more in sublimity than truth; it soars far above science in its discoveries, and holds accuracy in contempt.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

Tags: Ethan Allen


A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

PHILIP YANCEY

Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?

Tags: Philip Yancey


To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

Tags: Walter Lippmann


Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

Tags: John Twelve Hawks


I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

JAMES W. FOWLER

introduction, Stages of Faith

Tags: James W. Fowler


Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tags: Bruce Lee


Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires

Tags: K. J. Parker


The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

WILLIAM JAMES

"The Dilemma of Determinism"

Tags: William James


When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby

Tags: Charles Dickens


We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre

Tags: Stephen King


Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

MARTIN LUTHER

The Freedom of a Christian

Tags: Martin Luther


Faith is private capital, kept in one's own house. There are public savings-banks and loan-offices, which supply individuals in their day of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures.

MARTIN LUTHER

"An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans", Dr. Martin Luthers Vermischte Deutsche Schriften

Tags: Martin Luther


Faith doth both admit and reject disputation with difference.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

Tags: James Baldwin


That mysterious stone on which Jacob reposed was faith. Let us, too, sleep on its breast, and our future greatness will be revealed to us.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles," The Writings of Madame Swetchine

Tags: Madame Swetchine


At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.

KARL BARTH

Church Dogmatics


All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total as any baptism. Indeed baptism is a kind of enactment of the surrender: you bathe in faith, you swim in it, you live by it, surrounded by it, buoyed up by it, engulfed by it. You drown in it, for at times it takes your breath away as entirely as any lungful of water.... All the answers lie in faith; and when you lose your faith you have no choice but to substitute for if a philosophy that deliberately and coldly offers no answers at all.

SIMON MAWER

The Gospel of Judas

Tags: Simon Mawer


We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd

Tags: Dean Koontz