Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: Sweet Surrender
Quotes about faithful page 9
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”
Julia Cameron (1948) American writer
“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)
Laura Hillenbrand book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
“Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD… But you didn't even try.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
Book I, Ch. 27
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
Sam Harris book The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
This I Believe (1951)
Context: I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality. I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger, the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, just as the plant struggling under a stone does not know its own condition. Only when the stone is removed can it spring up freely into the light. But the power to spring up is inherent, and only death puts an end to it. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
“To me faith means not worrying”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: These Strange Ashes
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion
Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi
Variant: Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Context: What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.
Dean Koontz book Forever Odd
Source: Forever Odd
“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
Robert Ludlum book The Bourne Ultimatum
Source: The Bourne Ultimatum
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. Iii
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) English satirical novelist
Source: Wilt On High
“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Variant: My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 13; often the final portion of this is quoted alone as: "Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
Context: The Savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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; the tendency to manipulate people and "experiment with blood."
Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
“Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.”
Lee Strobel (1952) American writer
Source: The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ
Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 168 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%22My+deepest+awareness+of+myself+is+that+I+am+deeply+loved+by+Jesus+Christ+and+I+have+done+nothing+to+earn+it+or+deserve+it.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7yeaQ9ZTkAhUOnFkKHUBmB1sQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22My%20deepest%20awareness%20of%20myself%20is%20that%20I%20am%20deeply%20loved%20by%20Jesus%20Christ%20and%20I%20have%20done%20nothing%20to%20earn%20it%20or%20deserve%20it.%22&f=false <br class="br">1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990) <br class="br">Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
"Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?" http://www.thehypertexts.com/Essays%20Articles%20Reviews%20Prose/Elie_Wiesel_Essay_Have_You_Learned_The_Most_Important_Lesson_Of_All.htm, published in Parade Magazine (24 May 1992)
Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Context: So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth? That is what keeps preying on my mind, you see, and then one feels imprisoned by poverty, barred from taking part in this or that project and all sorts of necessities are out of one's reach. As a result one cannot rid oneself of melancholy, one feels emptiness where there might have been friendship and sublime and genuine affection, and one feels dreadful disappointment gnawing at one's spiritual energy, fate seems to stand in the way of affection or one feels a wave of disgust welling up inside. And then one says “How long, my God!”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)
“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 14 "Types of Men" - 3 : The Believer
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Bumped
“I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”
Dr. Seuss book Horton Hatches the Egg
Source: Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Joel Salatin (1957) American environmentalist
Source: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
“You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Iced
“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“The faith is not the problem, the problem is the faithful.”
Robert Ferrigno Prayers for the Assassin
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
Source: Prayers for the Assassin
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
