Faith

"Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others."

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

"The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them."

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from oneend to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terroristattacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out ofthe Pledge of Allegiance?"

"We live by faith and not by sight."

"In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong."

"True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you."

"It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you."

"Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come."

"Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God."

"Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no. One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

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

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

"You have as much laughter as you have faith."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."