Quotes About Faith

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.

I ask'd a thief to steal me a peach:He turned up his eyes.I ask'd a lithe lady to lie her down:Holy and meek, she cries.As soon as I wentAn angel came.He wink'd at the thiefAnd smil'd at the dame—And without one word saidHad a peach from the tree,And still as a maidEnjoy'd the lady.

He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.If the sun and moon should doubtThey'd immediately go out.

Turn away no more.Why wilt thou turn away?The starry floor,The wat'ry shoreIs giv'n thee till the break of day.

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

I trust God speaks through me,' said Bush the younger in 2004. 'Without that, I couldn't do my job.

The women don't really believe that their beloved would do such a thing,even if they're shown s severed limb or a headless torso.Or if they believe it,they know down to their bone marrow that lover-boy really had the best of intentions;it must have been some kind of very unfortunate accident,a well-meaning blunder;in fact, even more likely, it was a humanitarian act.

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.

They knew they were pilgrims.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many...

Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.

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Most loving Father, who has taught us to dread nothing but the loss of You, preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties.

I'm afraid I possess an unfortunate gap in my medical education of never having believed in much of that stuff. I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.

belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans, and a hundred offshoots of each, all raising their voices in praise to Him—often, too, raising their swords against one another in a manner, a zeal of hatred, which must have perplexed Him, as if one could ever chop off the head of one of His children and ascribe the act to His direct orders.

Every day the sun will rise and you never know what the tide will bring in. -Tom Hanks, in the movie 'Castaway'.

So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

assertion of Jesus that he was the vine through whom the branches lived.

Today, many people travel through life without clear spiritual direction. They cling to the popular religious beliefs of their culture. They settle for tradition and faith instead of seeking personal spiritual experience.