Faith
Quotes
We
have Faith
“All
I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“None
of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward.
Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
―
Paulo Coelho
“I
talk to God but the sky is empty.”
―
Sylvia Plath
“I'm
about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a
load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is
the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but
in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't
care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
―
Greg Behrendt
“No
matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or
going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great
things at different ages
1)
Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t
stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts
degree.
2)
Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age
of 5.
3)
Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4)
Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5)
Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6)
Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and
won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7)
Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950,
at the age of 15.
8)
Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958
with Brazil.
9)
Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10)
John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their
first concert in 1961.
11)
Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12)
Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13)
Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14)
Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15)
Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16)
Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17)
Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age
28
18)
Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the
ancient world
19)
J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry
Potter
20)
Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo
across the Atlantic Ocean
21)
Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated
program of its kind
22)
Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23)
Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24)
Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in
Physics
25)
The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the
world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and
sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26)
Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today
are worth millions.
27)
Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28)
Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and
49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29)
Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30)
Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up
her seat to make room for a white passenger
31)
John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32)
Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33)
Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34)
Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came
out.
35)
Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36)
Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37)
Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to
unprecedented levels.
38)
Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40)
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he
successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of
the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41)
Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42)
J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43)
Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44)
Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45)
Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
―
Pablo
“Be
Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take
risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“A
star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins
and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to
put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to
do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the
sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in
the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky
again.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Sometimes
God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
―
Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love
“Death
is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference
for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
―
Helen Keller
“The
reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith,
for to have faith is to have wings.”
―
J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Believe
in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith
that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can
travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“I
know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before
your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
―
C.S. Lewis
“A
casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove
anything.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I
am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I
cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the
sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in
humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to
despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
―
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“To
have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There
would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his
advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow
that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.
Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save
you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but
inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of
Heaven is already inside you.”
―
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary evidence.”
―
Carl Sagan
“Believe
something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've
changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't
that the way it works?”
―
Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
“Patience
Is Not the Ability to Wait:
Patience
is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens,
constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have
faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
― Roy
T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“There's
so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
―
Marilynne Robinson, Home
“To
love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems
hopeless.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
