Top 1200 Strong Faith Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline.

Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

Poland has resumed its place as a leading nation of a Europe that is strong, whole, and free.A strong Poland is a blessing to the nations of Europe. A strong Europe is a blessing to the West and to the world.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory.

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person’s faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

I am a man of faith and faith is not always supposed to happen and what you see, sometimes it's just walking that path.

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.

All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most - like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself (that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect) has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.

Always have com­plete faith in the indwelling God who takes care of everything. True greatness can only come from faith.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion.

The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

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.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.