Faith Quotes

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
– Michael Enzi
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
– Ernst Fischer
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
– B. C. Forbes
I think that the Vatican is in a deep crisis of faith which they should be praying for. They don't trust theologians, they don't trust women, they don't trust gays and they don't trust nature. The rest of us who do and who are looking for answers should just get on with the work.
– Matthew Fox
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
– Viktor E. Frankl
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
– Benjamin Franklin
Today, we do fight a different enemy, but one that is no less ruthless, no less determined, no less uncompromising than our enemies of those wars past. Once again, we must stay the course. Once again, we must have faith in our Armed Forces. Once again, we must hold tightly to the belief that freedom will prevail.
– Bill Frist
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
– James William Fulbright
What distinguishes Humanists from atheists is their faith in man's ability to do what God has failed to accomplish--make the world a happier abode.
– William Floyd
The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist - virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.
– William Friedkin
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
– Mahatma Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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.
– Mahatma Gandhi
True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of the Spirit.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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.
– Mahatma Gandhi
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
– William H. Gass
You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
– Amy Grant
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
– Alexander the Great
As the leader of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father planted seeds of hope in the hearts of millions, helping bring entire nations to the table of peace, and delivering them from tyranny. His ministry to the poor and oppressed was an example to us all, and inspired legions to pursue a life of faith and service. It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Pope John Paul II, our pilgrim of peace.
– Mark Green
I'm a person of faith, [but] I don't carry it on my sleeve.
– Christine Gregoire
Buildings can be rebuilt, no matter what the size. The void in sky is not just the absence of buildings, but the loss of faith in the human conscience.
– Fred Gallagher
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
– Roy R. Gilson
Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's name.
– Mills E. Godwin
Let us maintain our ability to wince as a people of faith.
– Leon Good
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
– Robert Greene
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
– Philip Gulley
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
– George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
– Alexander Haig
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
– Edith Hamilton
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.
– Brad Henry
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
– Brad Henry
We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
– John Hoeven
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Sacrament of the Eucharist is, of course, one step away from the Incarnation itself, where the thing signified (The Word) and the signifier (Jesus) were absolutely one. Symbol and sign and metaphor strain towards this union; Sacrament presents it, but the Incarnation is that perfect union. Again, it is a scandal. God is not man, any more than bread is flesh. But faith overrides the implacable prudence of logic and chemistry and says Lo!
– Thomas Howard
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.
– Douglas Hyde
As a Muslim, I know that my faith reveres all monotheistic religions. It completes God's message to mankind to live together in friendship and dignity, at a time when Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in many parts of the world, present an image which is totally alien to the spirit in which they were meant: the teachings of God in terms of tolerance and mutual respect.
– King Hussein
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
– King Hussein
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgement on anything.
– Victor Davis Hanson
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
– Henry H. Haskins
We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
– Cynthia Heimel
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
– Karl Hess
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
– Cullen Hightower
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
– Charles Hodge
We ought to change the legend on our money from In God We Trust to In Money We Trust; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
– Arthur Hoppe
In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.
– Richard Hurd
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
– George Iles
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'
– Robert Green Ingersoll
Faith is the refusal to panic.
– David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
– Patrick Kavanagh
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
– Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
– Dirk Kempthorne
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
– George F. Kennan
Our attitude toward immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as their talen and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.
– Charles F. Kettering
Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.
– Lil' Kim
Australia has kept faith with the US and we are endangering the Australians now by this wanton disregard for international law and multilateral channels.
– Diana Kerry
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
– Thomas Samuel Kuhn
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
– Abraham Kuyper
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
– Madeleine L'Engle
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
– Madeleine L'Engle
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.
– Martin Luther
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.
– Martin Luther
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
– Martin Luther
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
– Laurel Lee
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
– Carter Lindberg
To have faith where you cannot see; to be willing to work on in the dark; to be conscious of the fact that, so long as you strive for the best, there are better things on the way, this in itself is success.
– Katherine Logan
The principal part of faith is patience.
– George MacDonald
The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
– Connie Mack
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
– Bill Maher
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
– George McGovern
I have a great faith in every generation's ability to come up with its own music.
– John McLaughlin
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
– Herman Melville
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
– H. L. Mencken
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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.
– Alfred A. Montapert
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
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.
– Ralph Marston
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
– Ian Mcewan
Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.
– Eric Milner-White
St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.
– Eric Milner-White
Tradition relates that the war which ended in the expulsion of the Eries about the year 1653, from the western part of New York, originated in a breach of faith or trechery on the part of the Eries, in a Ball game to which they had challenged the Senecas.
– Lewis H. Morgan
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
– Mary Manin Morrissey
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
– Dinah Maria Mulock
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
– Gary North