Browsing Quotes With Tag: faith (35)
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Living by faith, then, is not simply a test, but a necessity until we are ready to receive more divine data. Meanwhile, we often go on asking God, as C. S. Lewis observed, questions even He cannot answer because they are the equivalent of: “How big is Yellow?” When we often can’t frame the right question, and could not contain the answer if it were given, silence must be God’s only response at times.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: For the Power is Unto ThemPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We prepare the soil, we don’t plant the seed. (Alma 32)
Speaker: Kevin HinckleySource: Education Week, 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Regardless of how many people still describe themselves as “Christian” in census surveys, we live in a primarily agnostic culture. Intellectually, agnosticism makes more sense. But the downside is that when people lose their convictions about the existence of God and Satan, they are less able to have personal perspectives on what’s right and what’s wrong. They are more open-minded about old taboos, but they’re also less able to see what’s obvious (and therefore susceptible to propaganda).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Speaker: Dan BarkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.Posted: 03 Aug 2009 at 9:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the paradoxes I have gathered on these pages have on recurring theme, it is the folly of denying ignorance. Just because something is so doesn’t mean that we can know it. There is necessary ignorance, and it is more significant than mere solipsism would have us believe.
Speaker: William PoundstoneSource: Labyrinths of ReasonPosted: 15 Jun 2009 at 4:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not only is it necessary to have faith in God, but also in Jesus Christ, his Son, the Savior of mankind and the Mediator of the New Covenant; and in the Holy Ghost, who bears record of the Father and the Son, “the same in all ages and forever.”
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First … it is necessary to have faith in God, faith being the first principle in revealed religion, and the foundation of all righteousness. Faith in God is to believe that he is, and “that he is the only supreme Governor and independent Being, in whom all fulness and perfection and every good gift and principle dwell independently,” and in whom the faith of all other rational beings must centre for life and salvation; and further, that he is the great Creator of all things, that he is omnipotent, omniscient, and by his works and the power of his Spirit omnipresent.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, 6: Faith: The Foundation of All RighteousnessPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a gift of God, and when people have faith to live the gospel, and to listen to the counsel of those who preside in the wards and stakes and of the General Authorities of the Church, it has been my experience that they have been abundantly blessed of the Lord, and that many of them have come out of great financial and other difficulties in a most miraculous and wonderful way.
Speaker: Heber J. GrantSource: Gospel Standards, pgs. 273-274Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must BELIEVE in order to understand instead of understand in order to believe.
Speaker: Jack ChristensenSource: BYU Ed WeekPosted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts—it’s able to endure temptations—because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they’re] not there.
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Faith is much more than passive belief. We express our faith through action—by the way we live.
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A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!