Quotes of: True-faith Keyword

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Thomas Brooks

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true...

Clifford D. Simak

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

Should one continue to follow the faith of a group that's cast him out? Shouldn't it stand to reason that if he was true to that faith that the group should have been true to him? Is it unreasonable to ask forgiveness of one who is all-forgiving?

Six Celestial Swords

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consignin...

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

Caleb Cushing

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Flannery O'Connor

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving....

O Me of Little Faith: True Confessions of a Spiritual Weakling

What is true of the natural qualities of the soul is preeminently true of faith. So long as we are quietly at rest amid favorable and undisturbed surroundings, faith sleeps as an undeveloped sinew within us. But when we are pushed out from all these ...

F.B. Meyer

Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptu...

John Wycliffe

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier. The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?" Not like that, I said. "No," he agreed. "Not like that.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of...

John Piper

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.

In Search of True Freedom

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Wislawa Szymborska

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This particular t...

The Fire Next Time

Then why do we do so many bad things? He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose ...

Have a Little Faith: a True Story