The intuitive
mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the
gift.
--Albert Einstein
It's lack
of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe
in myself
--Muhammad Ali
Enthusiasm
is nothing more or less than faith in action.
--Henry Chester
All effort
is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.
--Ordway Tead
Faith is
the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can do
very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
--Samuel Butler
Optimism
is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without
hope or confidence.
--Helen Keller
Never talk
defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
--Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Faith and
love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of
mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their
hands on the door-latch they die outside
--Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
The mason
asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from, man requires only
an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
--Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
He who loses
money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses
faith, loses all.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
The leader
seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their
attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their
needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates
confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis
overcome.
--John Haggai
Leaders are
the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of
its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere
aggregation of individuals
--Walter Lippmann
Faith is
the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
--Helen Keller
Scientists
were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious
men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
--Albert Einstein
Nine requisites
for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth
enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and
overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience
enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see
some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and
helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope
enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Take the
first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just
take the first step.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Minister, Civil Rights Leader
I do not
pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
--Mother Teresa
Faith is
an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of
thinking
--Kahlil Gibran
A little
faith will bring your soul to heaven; A great faith will bring heaven
to your soul.
--Charles Spurgeon
The only
limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let
us move forward with strong and active faith.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
A little
more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion,
a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent
ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future
with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great
burst of light and life.
--Elbert Hubbard
To sleep
is an act of faith
--Barbara G. Harrison
Without faith,
nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
--Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 - 1955) Educator
To one who
has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation
is possible.
--St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
A faith that
cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
--Arthur C. Clarke
Humanity's
first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt
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