Famous Quotes

"Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true."

Dean Inge on Faith

More quotes about Faith

• "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

  Mother Teresa on Faith

• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

  Martin Luther on Faith

• "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Faith

More quotes by Dean Inge

• "Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."

• "Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."

• "All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."

• "I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out."

• "In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach."