— Benjamin Franklin"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
Trust Quotes
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— Mahatma Gandhi"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed."
— Mahatma Gandhi"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."
— Barack Obama"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."
— Edgar Allan Poe"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."
— Gilbert K. Chesterton"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
— C. S. Lewis"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
— Mahatma Gandhi"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Helen Keller"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
— Mason Cooley"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."
— E. M. Forster"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
— Niccolo Machiavelli"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."
— Henry Ward Beecher"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
— Mahatma Gandhi"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
— William James"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
— Colin Powell"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
— Khalil Gibran"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."