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Faith: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, if the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.— BACON — Of Boldness
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.— BAILEY — Festus. Præm. L. 84.
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.— HOSEA BALLOU — MS. Sermons.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.— COWLEY — On the Death of Crashaw. L. 55.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.— EMILY DICKINSON — Poems.
Second Series. Xxx. To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.— DRYDEN — The Hind and the Panther. Pt. I. L. 141.
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the seed that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?— R. W. GILDER — Love and Death. St. 2.
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?- They sought a faith's pure shrine!— Mrs. HEMANS — Landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers. Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn'd! S.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 229.
Pope's trans. And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call-and rightlyfaith in God.— CHARLES KINGSLEY — Health and
Education. On Bio-Geology. *** "Patience!" "have faith and thy prayer will be answered!"— LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. St. 4. L. 139.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.— LOWELL — My Study Windows.
Abraham Lincoln. 1864. O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!— MILTON — Comus. L. 213.
That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XII. L. 294.
Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.— MILTON — To Cyriac Skinner.
But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. The Veiled
Prophet of Khorassan. If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow; No separate life they e'er can know : They're soul and body, hand and heart: What God hath joined, let no man part.— HANNAH MORE — Dan and Jane.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 305.
The enormous faith of many made for one.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 242.
Set on your foot, And with a heart new-fir'd I follow you, To do I know not what: but it sufficeth That Brutus leads me on. Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 331. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 130.
The saddest thing that can befall a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.— ALEXANDER SMITH — A Life Drama. Sc. 12.
Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite; the voice Of a deep life within, that will remain Until we crowd it thence.— ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH — Atheism in
Three Sonnets. Faith. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.— SYDNEY SMITH — Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 53.
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.— TENNYSON — Idylls of the King. Merlin and Vivien. L. 388.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. XCVI.
Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. XXXIII.
From seeming evil still educing good.— THOMSON — Hymn. L. 114.
A bending staff I would not break, A feeble faith I would not shake, Nor even rashly pluck away The error which some truth may stay, Whose loss might leave the soul without A shield against the shafts of doubt.— WHITTIER — Questions of Life. St. 1.
Through this dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!— WHITTIER — Barclay of Ury. St. 16.
"But they are dead; those two are dead! Their spirits are in Heaven!" 'Twas throwing words away; for still The little Maid would have her will, And said, "Nay, we are seven!" S.— WORDSWORTH — We Are Seven.
Of one in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. IV.
'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of Faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.— WORDSWORTH — Weak is the Will of
Man. Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of Death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands Thought smoothly on the further shore.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 721.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 838.
Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube; Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind. Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.— GOETHE — Faust. I. 1. 413.