Faith

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Choose to be optimistic; it feels better.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Never doubt the power of a small group of committed individuals to change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutions to cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Pray as if everything depended upon God; work as if everything depended upon you.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith is not without worry or care; faith is fear that has said a prayer.

Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, Come. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, Still come. And yet again, come!

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. 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.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?  

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

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

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.