Quotes with faith)

Quotes 261 till 280 of 396.

  • Georges Bernanos Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
    - +
     0
  • Martin Luther Reason is the enemy of faith.
    - +
     0
  • Richard Dawkins Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Tryon Edwards Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Gordon Sumner Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
    - +
     0
  • Christian Nevell Bovee Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Romain Rolland Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
    Romain Rolland
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1915) (1866 - 1944)
    - +
     0
  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Jean Rostand Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • Ellen Gould White Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
    - +
     0
  • Steve Jobs Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Barton The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
    - +
     0
All faith) famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 14)