Quotes About Faith

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

Much less may believers retreat to their ecclesiastical corner and, satisfied with simply having faith, abandon the building of the temple of science to unbelievers, as though science does not concern them.

Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.

Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.

There is thus no objection to the use of the term 'faith' for that function of the soul by which it attains certainty immediately or directly, without the aid of discursive demonstration. This places faith over against demonstration, but not over against knowing.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.