Quotes on Faith

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Author: Lynn Abbey

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Author: Edmond About

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Author: Lord Acton

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Author: Henry Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Author: Henry Adams

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Author: William Adams

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

Author: Joseph Addison

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Author: Felix Adler

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Author: Felix Adler

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Author: Mortimer Adler

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Author: Peter Akinola

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

Author: Peter Akinola

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Author: Peter Akinola

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Author: Louisa Alcott

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

Author: Muhammad Ali

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Author: William Ames

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Author: Henri Amiel

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Author: Kingsley Amis

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

Author: Sharron Angle

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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

Author: Thomas Aquinas

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.

Author: Corazon Aquino

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

Author: Corazon Aquino

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Author: W. Auden

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

Author: Saint Augustine

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Author: Irving Babbitt

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Author: Irving Babbitt

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Author: Irving Babbitt

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

Author: John Bacon

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Author: H. Bailey

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Author: Jim Bakker

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Author: Abu Bakr

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Author: Abu Bakr

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

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

Author: Stanley Baldwin

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

Author: Stephen Baldwin

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.

Author: Lucille Ball

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

Author: Hans Balthasar

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Author: Hans Balthasar

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Author: Hans Balthasar

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.

Author: Albert Bandura

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Author: Leslie Banks

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Author: Anna Barbauld

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

Author: Javier Bardem

Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Author: John Maxwell

Faith is never identical with piety.

Author: Karl Barth

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Author: Karl Barth

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

Author: Bob Bartlett

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Author: Bruce Barton

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.

Author: Clara Barton

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Author: Abu Bashir

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Author: Abu Bashir

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

Author: James Beattie

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Author: Francis Beaumont

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Author: Glenn Beck

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Author: Thomas Becket

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Author: Thomas Becket

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

Author: Henry Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Author: Henry Beecher

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Author: Aphra Behn

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Author: Ruth Benedict

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Author: Tony Benn

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Author: Georges Bernanos

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

Author: Georges Bernanos

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Author: Claude Bernard

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Author: Saint Bernard

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

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

Author: Mary Bethune

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

Author: Mary Bethune

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Author: Josh Billings

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

Author: William Blatty

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Author: Hal Borland

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Author: Hal Borland

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

Author: James Bovard

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Author: Christian Bovee

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Author: Julie Bowen

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Author: David Brainerd

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Author: Donna Brazile

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

Author: Sarah Breathnach

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

Author: Joe Briggs

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Author: Emily Bronte

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Author: Henry Brooke

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Author: Garth Brooks

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Author: Thomas Brooks

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Author: Dan Brown

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Author: Thomas Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Author: Thomas Browne

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

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

Author: Paul Brunton

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Author: Pearl Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Author: Pearl Buck

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.

Author: James Buckley

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Author: Pat Buckley

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Author: Martin Buren

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Author: James Burke

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Author: Robert Burton

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Author: George Bush

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

Author: George Bush

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

Author: Jeb Bush

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

Author: Jeb Bush

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Author: Vannevar Bush

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

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: Samuel Butler

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

Author: Steve Buyer

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Author: Abraham Cahan

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Author: John Calvin

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Author: Julia Cameron

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

Author: Albert Camus

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

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Author: Alejo Carpentier

You just have to have a simple faith.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Author: Sydney Carter

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Author: Sydney Carter

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

Author: Sydney Carter

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

Author: Sydney Carter

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

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.

Author: Fidel Castro

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

Author: Bruce Catton

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Author: Jim Caviezel

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Author: Robert Cecil

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

Author: Oswald Chambers

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Author: Whittaker Chambers

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Author: William Channing

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Author: Edwin Chapin

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Author: Chubby Checker

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.

Author: Anton Chekhov

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

Author: Anton Chekhov

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

Author: Martin Chemnitz

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

Author: Martin Chemnitz

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Author: Ron Chernow

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Author: Ron Chernow

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

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

For we walk in faith, not by sight.

Author: Jesus Christ

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Author: Adam Clarke

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Author: James Clarke

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Author: Albert Claude

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

Author: John Clayton

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

Author: John Clayton

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.

Author: Patsy Cline

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

Author: Nick Clooney