Faith Quotes

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.

~ David Cecil

Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.

~ E.l. Montes

If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive.

~ Jennifer Ott

Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.

~ Manel Loureiro

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

~ Elizabeth George

Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

~ Criss Jami

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

~ Thomas Jay Oord

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to protect us from harm. To protect our physical bodies from murder and damage, to protect our minds from madness, to protect our souls... There are insane dangers in the cosmos, dangers that mankind is fundamentally unable to comprehend, let alone survive. So he protects us. There are truths out there that would drive us mad by one fleeting glimpse of them. So he chooses not to share them with us. That's why he made you... Remember, Garviel. The Emperor is our truth and out light. If we trust in him, he will protect.

~ Dan Abnett

I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.

~ Aleksandra Layland

Believe is the first step of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith and hope mean absolutely nothing where consistent action fails to exist.

~ Hafiz

Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.

~ Jim George

There is no limit to the heights we can reach if we take action by faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

~ Susanna Kearsley

I sought Him where my logic led. “This friend is always sure and right; His lantern is sufficient light.I need no Star,” I said.I sought Him in the city square. Logic and I went up and down The marketplace of many a town,But He was never there.I tracked Him to the mind’s far rim. The valiant intellect went forth To east and west and south and north,But found no trace of Him.We walked the world from sun to sun, Logic and I, with Little Faith, But never came to Nazareth,Nor met the Holy One.We sought in vain. And finally, Back to the heart’s small house I crept, And fell upon my knees, and wept;And Lo! He came to me!

~ Sara Henderson Hay

imagine the desertmothers, with hair tangledtighter than their theologyand breasts that flowed milkand mystic wisdom. theyknew how to draw the singingsigils in the sand, how to digrough and bitten fingersinto desiccated dirt for waterto wet the lips of their young.women of hips and heft, wholearned how to burnbeneath the wild and searingsun, who made loud loveagainst the star-flecked threatof night, who knew that strengthis not always a matter of muscle.imagine your ancestresses,the prophetesses of the aridlands, before these starchedtraditions and pews too hardto pray from, who bled trueritual and birthed their own fiercesouls at creation's crowning --

~ Beth Morey

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.)

~ Beth Morey

she prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions , now

~ Beth Morey

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

~ Muse

It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.

~ Igor Eliseev

They always act this way: push those who are falling.

~ Igor Eliseev

Hope, tell me how could it be possible that grief and happiness are scattered all over the world so unevenly? Why do some people get all the troubles and misfortunes while the others are intoxicated with the abundance of material belongings, fat bellies and money? Why is there such injustice? Or, maybe, we are mistaken it’s unfair!?

~ Igor Eliseev

Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.

~ Igor Eliseev

People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

~ Igor Eliseev

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?

~ Igor Eliseev

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

~ Igor Eliseev

I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner world visible, that gives a chance to look at oneself from outside – everything is beautiful, even us.

~ Igor Eliseev

We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.

~ Igor Eliseev

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

~ Igor Eliseev

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be treated as if they are not human beings, that life finds its sense only in the midst of great sufferings and tribulations, that is difficult to smile to people who hate or despise you, that people’s desires are primitive and life is complicated, that writing a book is equal to lounging, that being a human is rather easy but seems to be quite superfluous to an average person. Perhaps my books are about worthwhile things that don’t seem to exist but is encountered every day.

~ Igor Eliseev

And now, it turns out that our mother’s name means benevolence and generosity to people as objects of love! This is both a unique and beautiful name, Charity. “It was one of life’s cruel ironies,” I thought, “that a midwife, or whoever filled in the documents, must have known our mom’s name. I suppose she had a lot of fun naming us Hope and Faith! Or, on the contrary, she sympathized.

~ Igor Eliseev

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one’s faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

~ Igor Eliseev

Oh, this tormenting concern that your neighbor’s life might be better than yours! And how great it feels when you realize that the truth is exactly the opposite; and we’re not so different after all. Nоthing brings true neighbors together like a little friendly competition.

~ Igor Eliseev

All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to plunge into this fairy world entirely, settle down and live there. So why didn’t I feel happy when it happened for real?

~ Igor Eliseev

I should be grateful to the knife that’s curing me for being so sharp.

~ Igor Eliseev

People have no limits either in love or in hatred. But is it their fault? They despise us because they are afraid, for we remind them that getting crippled or sick might happen to anyone; or, perhaps, the true reason of their hatred lies much deeper inside, stemming from the hidden ugliness of their own souls?

~ Igor Eliseev

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

~ Igor Eliseev