Those who trust us educate us.
~ George Eliot
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
~ Lao Tzu
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.
~ Alice Neel
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.
~ Mary Mcleod Bethune
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
~ Michelangelo
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
~ Erich Fromm
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.
~ Pearl Bailey
In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~ Barbara De Angelis
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
~ Margaret Gibb
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.
~ Katheryn Hulme
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
~ Joan Osborne
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
~ Teresa Of Ávila
The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.
~ Therese Of Lisieux
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
~ Vance Havner
Your faith is what you believe not what you know.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.
~ Major Kira Nerys
Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.
~ Saint Clare Of Assisi
No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
~ Elsa Einstein
It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.
~ John Calvin
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
~ George Sand
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
~ Jerzy Lee Stanislaw
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
~ Saint Augustine
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.
~ Blaise Pascal
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
~ Marlene Dietrich
It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Faith is the continuation of reason.
~ William Adams
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.
~ Jacques Cousteau
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
~ C. S. Lewis
Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.
~ James Schouler
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
~ John Donne
It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
~ Benjamin Franklin