Perspectives



Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we can't see.
Hebrews 11:1

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
John A. Hutchison

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

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Dorothy Thompson

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.
Miracle on 34th Street

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
Muhammad Ali

Pastor Lu
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

Faith is an oasis in the heart, which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking
Kahlil Gibran

Touched by the Hands of God
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
John Donne

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind, it dies.
Mahatma Ghandi

On Assignment
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Helen Keller

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A Man from Malta
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clark

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
Anonymous

Spirits in the Cityscape
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
William Arthur Ward

Rousing Requiem Ritual
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau

Faithless Hypocrites
A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLoed Bethune

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw


Humanity's first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt.
Anonymous

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahil Gibran

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien