Top 1200 Good Faith Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . . You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure.

When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. Stand strong and fight the good fight of faith. God has called each of us to be champions; you are destined to win. If you will work with God and keep a good attitude, then no matter what comes against you, the bible says that all things – not just the good things in life, but all things – work together for your good.

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I'm open to working with anybody and everybody as long as I have faith in them and they have faith in me.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.

I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.

Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me, it was reading about how the Catholic Church wrestled with itself in the 1960s. Pope John XXIII set Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - in motion. It changed the relationship between Jews and Catholics. Today, Jews and Catholics meet as friends. If you can do that, after the longest history of hatred the world has known, that empowers you as a Jew or a Muslim to wrestle with your faith.

The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Generally, I am losing faith in telly, as we do have good dramas but not as many as there should be.

FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

My faith is what makes me strong. Without faith, there are only low times.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.