Faith Baldwin Quotes

#1. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.

Faith Baldwin

#2. There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

Faith Baldwin

#3. The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.

Faith Baldwin

#4. Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

Faith Baldwin

#5. I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

Stephen Baldwin

#6. It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it.

Chuck Baldwin

#7. Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin

#8. Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

Stephen Baldwin

#9. Faith is the spiritual house in which we live.

Faith Baldwin

#10. I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Stanley Baldwin

#11. Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

Faith Baldwin

#12. Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

Faith Baldwin

#13. I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.

Faith Baldwin

#14. I think one should forgive and remember ... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

Faith Baldwin

#15. A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.

Faith Baldwin

#16. The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?

J.F. Baldwin

#17. Acceptance is a far better word and denotes a more positive attitude than resignation; I've always known that, but in recent days I've found one which is better still; it is consent.

Faith Baldwin

#18. Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations.

Faith Baldwin

#19. I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless.

Matt Baldwin

#20. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.

Faith Baldwin

#21. One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Faith Baldwin

#22. You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Faith Baldwin

#23. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations

Faith Baldwin

#24. The one universal form of art is music.

Faith Baldwin

#25. In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

Faith Baldwin

#26. Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

James A. Baldwin

#27. Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Faith Baldwin

#28. We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

Faith Baldwin

#29. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin

#30. The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Faith Baldwin

#31. Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

Faith Baldwin

#32. Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

Micah Baldwin

#33. Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

Faith Baldwin

#34. From one hour to the next a life may change.... But as I have thought and said for years, acceptance is a key to strength and practice makes it easier.

Faith Baldwin

#35. I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

Faith Baldwin