World's Greatest Faith Quotes

James Alexander

Description

Faith: - A complete trust or confidence in someone or something - A strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof - A belief that is not based on proof - A belief in anything as a code of ethics or standards of merit - An allegiance to duty of a person - Being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see... However you wish to define 'faith', it is a very personal thing; the force of life, as Tolstoy said. Faith offers with it the comforts of optimism and hope, goodness and light. It's still believing the best in everyone even when you've seen the worst in some. This collection of faith quotes is designed to uplift and inspire you.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781906051839
• Langue: English

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INTRODUCTION
 
Faith
 
- A complete trust or confidence in someone or something
 
- A strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof
 
- A belief that is not based on proof
 
- A belief in anything as a code of ethics or standards of merit
 
- An allegiance to duty of a person
 
- Being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see
 
- The force of life
 
- A confident belief in the truth, value or trustworthiness of a person, idea or thing
 
- Loyalty to a thing or person
 
- A set of principles or beliefs
 
However you wish to define ‘faith’, it is a very personal thing; the force of life, as Tolstoy said. Faith offers with it the comforts of optimism and hope, goodness and light. It’s still believing the best in everyone even when you’ve seen the worst in some.
 
We hope this collection of faith quotes will uplift and inspire you.
 
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‘Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith’
Lord Acton
Historian, politician and writer

‘To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny’
Joseph Addison
Politician and writer

‘One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian’
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher and writer

‘Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged’
Louisa May Alcott
Writer

‘It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself’
Muhammad Ali
Boxer
 
‘To disbelieve is easy, to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder’
Louis L’Amour
Writer

‘Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand’
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher and priest

‘Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church’
Thomas Aquinas

‘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’
Thomas Aquinas

‘To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible’
Thomas Aquinas

‘May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?’
W.H. Auden
Poet

‘Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe’
Saint Augustine
 
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‘A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism’
Irving Babbitt
Philosopher and literary critic
 
‘The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people’
Irving Babbitt
 
‘Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself’
Irving Babbitt
 
‘But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person’
Mikhail Bakunin
Philosopher
 
‘Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others’
Mikhail Bakunin

‘I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it’
Stanley Baldwin
Politician

‘One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself’
Lucille Ball
Actress

‘Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is’
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Theologian

‘To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love’
Hans Urs von Balthasar
 
‘Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the centre in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new centre, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith’
Hans Urs von Balthasar

‘People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives’
Albert Bandura
Psychologist

‘I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past’
Clara Barton
Teacher

‘Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice; that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot; the content of character, not the colour of skin’
Glenn Beck
Broadcaster
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