Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: faith

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I'm a strong man of faith.

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe that you're going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don't have faith.

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

I think politicians should express their faith. I have never adhered to the Blair view that we don't do God, indeed I'm not sure that Blair does.

Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.