Faith Quotes - page 4

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Benjamin Disraeli)
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. View quote
A. Scott Berg
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. View quote
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. View quote
Judy Collins
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. View quote
Ernst Fischer
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. (John Denver)
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. View quote
John Updike
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God. View quote
Daniel Webster
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. View quote
Gregory Peck
Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear? View quote
David Zindell
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. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
To me faith means not worrying. View quote
John Dewey
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. View quote
Felix Adler
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. View quote
Cat Stevens
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? View quote
Charles Lindbergh