Faith In God Quotes - Page 9

• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Economic Models

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• Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Fear, Humanity, Religion

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• I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

  Kirk Cameron

  Rocks, Have Faith, Bugs

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• I'm not an atheist. I do have faith in God. I do not judge people for their faith. I judge people who use religion to hurt people. I don't believe in a religion that shuns people for their beliefs, or that you should hurt people for their beliefs.

  Leah Remini

  Hurt, Atheist, Believe

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teacher, Atheist, Children

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Looks, World, Invasion

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• [W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Fall, Steps

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

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• Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

  Radhanath Swami

  Intellectual, Logic, Presentation

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• We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

  David Brainerd

  Faith, Learning, Long

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.125

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• Our children should be indoctrinated in the principles of the Gospel from their earliest childhood. They should be made familiar with the contents of the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. These should be their chief text books, and everything should be done to establish and promote in their hearts genuine faith in God, in His Gospel and its ordinances, and in His works.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Book, Heart

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• And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Faith, Dream, Clothes

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• Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

  Mathew Staver

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

  Ronald Reagan

  Honesty, Real, Rocks

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Compassion, Oil

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.

  Asa Mahan

  Promise, Spirit

  Asa Mahan, Charles Grandison Finney (1872). “The baptism of the holy Ghost, by A. Mahan, and The enduement of power, by C.G. Finney”, p.7

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• Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

  Alberta Hunter

  Songwriting, Confidence In Yourself

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• No matter whose bed you die in
  the bed will be yours
  for your voyage
  onto the surgical andiron
  of God.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Bed, Matter

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• The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

  Robert Burns

  Faith, Heart, Kind

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• The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

  Jill Briscoe

  Faith, Religious, Practice

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• For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  God, Strong, Anxiety

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• In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Real, Surrender

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 552, 2007.

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• God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

  Betty Eadie

  Hurt, Names, People

  Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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