Quotes about faith

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

— H. L. Mencken

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

— Olivier Messiaen

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.

— Henry Miller

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

— Dwight L. Moody

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?

— Dwight L. Moody

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

— Hannah More

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

— George E. Mueller

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

— Major Kira Nerys

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

— Cardinal J. Newman

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

— Charles H. Parkhurst

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

— Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

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.

— Blaise Pascal

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

— Plato

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

— Alexander Pope

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

— Proverb

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

— Indian Proverb

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

— B.H. Roberts

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

— Adrian Rogers

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

— John Ruskin

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

— Thomas Russell

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

— Samuel Rutherford

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

— William Salter

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

— George Sand

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

— Friedrich Schlegel

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

— George Bernard Shaw

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

— Samuel M. Shoemaker

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

— Sydney Smith

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

— John R. Stott

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

— Edward Teller

Faith lives in honest doubt.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

— William M. Thackeray

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

— William M. Thackeray

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

— Henry David Thoreau

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

— Alexis De Tocqueville

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

— A. W. Tozer

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

— Elton Trueblood

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

— Mark Twain

Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

— Source Unknown

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

— Source Unknown

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

— Source Unknown

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

— Source Unknown

Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

— Source Unknown

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

— Source Unknown

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

— Source Unknown

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

— Source Unknown

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

— Source Unknown

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

— Source Unknown

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

— Source Unknown

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

— Source Unknown

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

— Source Unknown

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

— C. M. Ward

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

— Daniel Webster

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.

— Simone Weil

Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

— John Wesley

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

— Ellen Gould White

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

— Oscar Wilde

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

— Robert Eldridge Willmott

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.

— John Wooden

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

— Young

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

— St. Augustine

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

— Brigitte Bardot

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

— Confucius

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

— Ava Gardner

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

— Brother Lawrence

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion and he will be frenzied.

— Kedar Joshi

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

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Never give up on your dreams, have faith in yourself and your abilities. Everything that has ever been, is and will be is here now it's just the matter of the right time for things to reveal themselves.

— Inderjeet Singh Rajpal

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The only argument against losing faith is that you also lose hope – and generally charity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

— Dejan Stojanovic

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

— Dejan Stojanovic

Religion is a virus, and we are glad to have it.

— John Art

Just for a persistence of faith, many people deplete their entire lives in the everlasting awaited.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Somewhere out there events and people are coming together for something truly amazing to come your way it may not seem it now with whatever you may be going through However believe that there is a miracle on it's way to you and in the blink of an eye itll make sense of what's happening now Trust in yourself and that which you believe in

— inderjeet rajpal

What can often seem so far away is right here with you now

— inderjeet rajpal

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

— Mark Twain

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt