Quotes About Faith

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

God, save me and I will serve You as long as I live!

There's still a question I must put to you," said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

We all exist in a state of doubt even when we do not realize it.

In Battuta's obsession with sharia and the Muslim world and in his lack of interest in nearly everything outside it we clearly see the double-edged sword of Islam so visible in today's world: an ecumenical but self-satisfied faith capable of uniting far-flung peoples under one system of belief and one regime of law, but also severely limited in its capacity to examine and borrow from others.

The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies...

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.

Simply put, war restores in man the belief that there are some things worth fighting and dying for; things like love, liberty, and faith.

Disconfirmation of deeply held beliefs causes severe psychic pain; what better way of alleviating it than in the company of newly won believers? As put by Festinger, "If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must, after all, be correct.

all democratic societies based on the rule of law, on the Tinkerbell Principle: it functioned only so long as its participants believed in it.48

It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Grace will complete what grace begins. God does not abandon his work in an incomplete state." WILLIAM JONES

Love is spiritual; it is something that will never be fully comprehendible through science or through written word, love at its core is an emotion. It is as intangible as faith, you must have it to understand it, or believe it exists to seek it.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.