Poetry is faith. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Guard the faith. [ Motto ]
By courage and faith. [ Motto ]
Faith sees by the ears. [ Proverb ]
Faith needs her daily bread. [ Georgiana M. Craik ]
Hope is the mother of faith. [ Landor ]
Prayer is the voice of faith. [ Horne ]
Little moments make an hour.
Little thoughts a book,
Little seeds a tree or flower.
Water-drops a brook;
Little deeds of faith and love
Make a home for you above. [ Anonymous ]
Faith is necessary to victory. [ Hazlitt ]
The soul is one with its faith. [ C. A. Bartol ]
Doubt is the vestibule of faith. [ Colton ]
Faith is deferential incredulity. [ Voltaire ]
Woman's faith, and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Bold from being armed with faith. [ Motto ]
One faith, one tongue, one heart. [ French Proverb ]
Without wonder there is no faith. [ Jean Paul ]
Faith is the heroism of intellect. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Miracle is the pet child of faith. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Great faith must have great trials. [ Spurgeon ]
Faith is obedience, not compliance. [ George MacDonald ]
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. [ Wordsworth ]
However it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
And simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]
Our life must answer for our faith. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Faith is the continuation of reason. [ William Adams ]
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
On argument alone my faith is built. [ Young ]
Faith is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]
For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Base souls have no faith in great men. [ Rousseau ]
The great world's altar-stairs
That slope through darkness up to God. [ Tennyson ]
'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store. [ Keble ]
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. [ Bailey ]
The fullest confidence; implicit faith.
A man of courage is also full of faith. [ Cicero ]
Man is not made to question, but adore. [ Young ]
One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith became
A passionate intuition. [ Wordsworth ]
Faith in friendship is the noblest part. [ Earl of Orrery ]
Faith is not reason's labor, but repose. [ Young ]
The principal part of faith is patience. [ George MacDonald ]
Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! [ Virgil ]
Youth without faith is a day without sun. [ Ouida ]
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. [ Proverb ]
Trust not him that hath once broken faith. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are no tricks in plain simple faith. [ Shakespeare ]
No faith has triumphed without its martyrs. [ E. de Girardin ]
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. [ Job xiii. 15 ]
He pins his faith upon another man's sleeve. [ Proverb ]
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. [ Channing ]
Christian life consists in faith and charity. [ Luther ]
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm. [ Holmes ]
Oh, love forever lost,
And with it faith gone out! what is't remains
But duty, though the path be rough and trod
By bruised and bleeding feet? [ Lewis Morris ]
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope.
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. [ Milton ]
Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy heart. [ Arndt ]
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]
Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. [ Young ]
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. [ Pope ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character. [ Robert Browning ]
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held! [ Wordsworth ]
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. [ William Shakespeare ]
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
But all mankind's concerned in Charity;
All must be false that thwart this one great end.
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. [ Alexander Pope ]
This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. [ Voltaire ]
Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. [ Dr. Young ]
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love. [ Beecher ]
To revive faith is more difficult than to create it. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. [ George MacDonald ]
Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me;
For in faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. [ Playford ]
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. [ Swift ]
Faith is the flame that lifts the sacrifice to heaven. [ J. Montgomery ]
Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. [ Boston ]
Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason. [ Sir T. Browne ]
The great indestructible miracle is man's faith in miracle. [ Jean Paul ]
Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. [ Lucan ]
To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Systems exercise the mind, but faith enlightens and guides it. [ Voltaire ]
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. [ Carlyle ]
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. [ Whately ]
Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness. [ Shelley ]
Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity remains. [ Prior ]
A woman full of faith in the one she loves is but a novelist's fancy. [ Balzac ]
Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science. [ Amiel ]
Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. [ Whittier ]
No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world. [ Carlyle ]
Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. [ Holmes ]
Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. [ Mme. de Staël ]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [ Bible ]
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
If reason justly contradicts an article, it is not of the household of faith. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. [ C. J. Weber ]
It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]
The saddest thing that can befall a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. [ Alexander Smith ]
Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. [ Bishop Horne ]
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. [ Victor Hugo ]
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. [ William Shakespeare ]
The imagination is the secret and harrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. [ John Sterling ]
True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. [ Milton ]
Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. [ Hare ]
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The world takes, from even the most candid heart, the freshness of faith and generosity. [ George Sand ]
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. It is the doctrine of faith over works. [ Emerson ]
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]
At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. [ Bodenstedt ]
It is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. [ Balzac ]
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word, - faith. [ Napoleon I ]
Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. [ Quarles ]
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. [ Sydney Dobell ]
Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. [ Cervantes ]
Let us have faith that right makes might; and, in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
The mistakes of woman result almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth. [ Balzac ]
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. [ Phillips Brooks ]
No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him. [ John Ruskin ]
Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Lincoln ]
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. [ Faber ]
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]
He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows. [ J. F. Clarke ]
There are three things a wise man will not trust - the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. [ Southey ]
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Now-a-days friends are no longer found; good faith is dead, envy reigns supreme; and evil habits are ever more extending. [ Sannazaro ]
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith: and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
But Christian faith knows that wealth means responsibility, and that responsibility may come to mean only heavy arrears of sin. [ H. P. Liddon ]
Science corrects the old creeds ... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. [ Aaron Hill ]
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. [ Bovee ]
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. [ Lowell ]
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered. [ Tupper ]
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times they used the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. [ John Ruskin ]
We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused: the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [ Propertius ]
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers of painting. [ Ruskin ]
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence. [ Southey ]
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]
The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]
Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]
After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]