Faith Quotes - page 5

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Edgar Allan Poe)
I have great faith in fools My friends call it self-confidence. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. View quote
Madeleine Albright
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. View quote
John Ruskin
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. View quote
Margaret Mead
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life. (Giuseppe Mazzini)
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. View quote
Henry Miller
Have faith in your own thoughts. View quote
Brooke Shields
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. View quote
Steve Jobs
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win. View quote
Roger Ebert
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. View quote
Robert Browning
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. View quote
Amy Tan
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. View quote
James Baldwin
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. (Johan Huizinga)
I don't need faith. I have experience. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? View quote
George Fox
Application of your faith will change your life. View quote
Glenn Beck
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)