faith

1.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

- Proverb, Indian

2.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

3.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

- Bible

4.

My friends, whether you will be the happier for any knowledge of physical science, or for any other knowledge whatsoever, I cannot tell. That lies in the decision of a higher Power than I; and, indeed, to speak honestly, I do not think that any branch of physical science is likely, at first at least, to make you happy. Neither is the study of your fellow-men. Neither is religion itself. We were not sent into the world to be happy, but to be right--at least, poor creatures that we are--as right as we can be, and we must be content with being right, and not happy. . . . And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call (and rightly) faith in God, true and solid faith, which comes often out of sadness and out of doubt.

- Lecture on Bio-geology. 1869.

5.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

- Franklin, Benjamin

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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

- Dyke, Henry Van

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

- Rodman, Frances

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To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

- Benjamin Franklin

10.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

- George Goethals

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

12.

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.

- Prophet Mohammed

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Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

- Gropius, Walter

14.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

- Harrington, Bob

15.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

- Cloward, Elder

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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

- Camus, Albert

18.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

- Thoreau, Henry David

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No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

- Albert Einstein

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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

- Gibbon, Edward