Faith Quotes

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
– Denzel Washington
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
– Marian Wright Edelman
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
– Samuel Rutherford
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
– Joanna Southcott
My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.
– Jim Caviezel
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
– Tony Blair
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.
– Alveda King
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
– Anne Lamott
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
– Alcee Hastings
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.
– Ray Comfort
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
– Jack Schwartz
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
– Cat Stevens
Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.
– Sheila Jackson Lee
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
– Caleb Cushing
Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
– Mitt Romney
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.
– Thomas Becket
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.
– Puff Daddy
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.
– Albert Schweitzer
Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.
– Ray Lewis
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
– Robert Browning
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.
– Peter Conrad
Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
– Joel Osteen
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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.
– Abraham Lincoln
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
– Boris Kodjoe
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.
– Ronald Reagan
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
– George A. Smith
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
– Wislawa Szymborska
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.
– Glenn Beck
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.
– Adam Clarke
Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
– Joe Nichols
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
– Sean Connery
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
– Novalis
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
– Francis Wright
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
– Oliver Cromwell
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
– Paula Abdul
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
– William Gurnall
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
– Jonathan Sacks
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
– Quentin Tarantino
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
– Ed Miliband
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
– Jon Meacham
It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.
– Tim Tebow
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.
– Steve Jobs
It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
– Steve Jobs
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
– Gary Bauer
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
– Vince Lombardi
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.
– Daniel Berrigan
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
– Julie Bowen
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
– Vera Farmiga
It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
– Tony Campolo
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
– J. J. Abrams
It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
– Joey Skaggs
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.
– Orson Pratt
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.
– Mitt Romney
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.
– Scott Stapp
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
– Miguel de Unamuno
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
– Robin Roberts
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
– Cat Stevens
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.
– William James
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
– Jean Ingelow
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
– Kamisese Mara
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
– Dorothy Day
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
– Jean Racine
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
– Thomas a Kempis
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
– J. C. Watts
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
– Juan Goytisolo
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
– Nicolas Malebranche
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
– Jonathan Sacks
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
– Georg Simmel
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.
– James L. Buckley
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
– Juan Goytisolo
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
– Mark Foley
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
– Jimmy Carter
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.
– Alan Watts
In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.
– Wentworth Miller
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
– John Doolittle
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
– Walter Lang
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
– Mike McCurry
In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
– Jon Meacham
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
– Matthew Simpson
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
– Matthew Simpson
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
– William Hazlitt
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
– Lawrence Welk
If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
– Bill Cosby
If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
– Ayrton Senna
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
– The Dalai Lama
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.
– Ramakrishna
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
– Don King
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
– Freya Stark
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
– George Carey
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
– Studs Terkel
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
– Ray Comfort
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
– Martin Luther
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
– John Paul Jones