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Faith Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
- Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
- In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,…
- Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and…
- Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
- We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
- When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- We must have infinite faith in each other.
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
- The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Faith never makes a confession.
- Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me…
- The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith…
- Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass any…
More Faith Quotes
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine