This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Faith is not something that we acquire once and for all. Faith is an insight that must be acquired at every single moment.
While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.
Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra, also known as Ben Ezra or Abenezra
All the commandments follow three ways: faith, word, and deed. As one is basic in mathematics, so the essence of every commandment, whether it depends on speech or action, is faith of heart. If it has not that , all else is meaningless.
The problem of our purpose is a religious problem... Our purpose is derived from faith and is imposed onto reality by our own souls. But faith and religious truth themselves are not absolute. They are relative. Thus the answers one gives to questions about the purpose of life must necessarily be relative to a time, a place, a tradition... To know and worship God means, in Baha’ullah’s words, to promote the unity of the human race and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men”... Someday there will be a global society in which humanity will realize its spiritual and moral potential... The destiny of mankind, actually, is the ultimate creation of the world civilization. It is only in the service of such a cause that I find the meaning and purpose of life.
Absolute | Cause | Civilization | Destiny | Faith | Global | God | Human race | Humanity | Life | Life | Love | Mankind | Meaning | Means | Men | Purpose | Purpose | Race | Reality | Service | Society | Spirit | Time | Tradition | Truth | Unity | Will | Wisdom | Words | World | Worship | Society | God |
Dreamers are the architects of greatness. Their brains have wrought all human miracles... only cowardice and lack of faith can keep the seeker from his chosen goal; but if his heart be strong and if he dream enough and dream it hard enough, he can attain, no matter where men failed before.
Cowardice | Enough | Faith | Greatness | Heart | Men | Miracles | Wisdom |
Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla
You don’t gain faith, you discover it and you direct it. The issue is not how much faith you have, but where your faith is invested. You have faith on many different levels and in many different ways, but its most perfect expression is in your spiritual nature.
Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla
Faith is expectation. Whatever you strongly and consistently expect to come into your life is invariably what you will experience... Faith is always accompanied by strong emotion. Faith can only extend to the self-imposed boundaries of your present consciousness.
Consciousness | Expectation | Experience | Faith | Life | Life | Present | Self | Will | Wisdom |
Lyndon Johnson, fully Lyndon Baines Johnson, aka LBJ
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Children | Faith | Future | Government | People | Trust | Wisdom | Government |
Søren Kierkegaard, fully Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
Faith | Impossibility | Risk | Wisdom |
Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Duty | Faith | Right | Wisdom | Understand |