Quotes by Faith Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy. Alexander MacLaren simple faith men Faith is the sight of the inward eye. Alexander MacLaren eye faith sight I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. Alexander Pope prayer faith believe The enormous faith of many made for one. Alexander Pope enormous faith made The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman. Alexander Smith saddest soul faith It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it. Alexis Carrel faith action men Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity? Alexis de Tocqueville ties faith people As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances. Alfred Korzybski gambling faith believe If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy. Alfred Korzybski insane-person faith fall Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. Alfred Korzybski belief faith order There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson honesty faith inspirational Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Alfred Lord Tennyson simple faith heart His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Alfred Lord Tennyson rooted dishonour faith Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Alfred Lord Tennyson equal faith want Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. Alfred Lord Tennyson strong faith jesus Faith lives in honest doubt. Alfred Lord Tennyson faith doubt feelings Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. Alfred North Whitehead faith god motivational Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. Alfred Rosenberg faith men blood Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; Algernon Charles Swinburne truth faith believe People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic brother faith «1234567891011»