Faith Quotes

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

"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."

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

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."

"Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy."

"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."

"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."

"God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you."

"God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last."

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them."

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."

"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

"Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian."

"Faith is a passionate intuition."

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."

"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."

"Have faith in God God has faith in you."

"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."

"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."

"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense."

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

"Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend."

"I live and love in God's peculiar light."

"God continues to work miracles in my life."

"He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you."

"To me faith means not worrying."

"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing."

"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God."

"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."

"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."

"Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."

"Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind."

"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me."

"Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith."

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest."

"What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth."

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other."

"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character."

"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."

"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God."

"I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first."

"I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it."

"Faith is reason grown courageous."

"Only faith is sufficient."

"Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it."

"No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them."

"My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ."

"It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects."

"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New."

"Vision looks upward and becomes faith."

"Faith is not contrary to reason."

"I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure."

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."

"Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."

"Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish."

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

"My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium."

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

"Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."

"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed."

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

"Non-violence is the article of faith."

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

"I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it."

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice."

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

"If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."

"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

"Faith never makes a confession."

"Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish."

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner."

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"

"Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."

"Fear clogs faith liberates."

"If you have no faith, you've lost your battle."

"Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ."

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned."

"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith."

"People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior."

"For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."

"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."

"Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith."

"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."

"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."

"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."

"Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith."

"It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with."

"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."

"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

"No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life."

"This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people."

"Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life."

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

"A library implies an act of faith."

"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"

"Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done."

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."

"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith."

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."

"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists."

"Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark."

"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."

"No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."

"Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives."

"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor."

"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."

"Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."

"Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest."

"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

"Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

"If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled."

"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them."

"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists."

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."

"It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?"

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world."

"Duty cannot exist without faith."

"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."

"Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do."

"Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other."

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."

"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."

"We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments."

"A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love."

"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."

"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."

"Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what."

"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."

"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

"Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith."

"Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves."

"Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will."

"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see."

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty."

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."

"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation."

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent."

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."

"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior."

"As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer."

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin."

"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith."

"Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested."

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

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

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

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith."

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

"Keep your faith. The most amazing things in life tend to happen right at the moment you are about to give up hope."

"Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death."