Faith Quotes

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
– Michel de Montaigne
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
– George Moore
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
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
– Chester W. Nimitz
All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
– Bill Owens
In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
– Bill Owens
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
– Charles Henry Parkhurst
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
– Blaise Pascal
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
– Blaise Pascal
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
– Albert Pike
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
– Plato
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.
– Edgar Allan Poe
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
– Alexander Pope
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
– David E. Price
Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.
– David E. Price
Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
– David E. Price
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
– Francis Quarles
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
– Dan Quayle
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
– Joseph Ratzinger
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
– Joseph Ratzinger
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
– Jodi Rell
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
– Christina G. Rossetti
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
– Jean Rostand
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
– Mary Caroline Richards
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
– Rabindranath Tagore
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
– Tertullian
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
– Henry David Thoreau
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.
– Leo Tolstoy
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
– Susan L. Taylor
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
– Miguel de Unamuno
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
– David Viscott
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
– Simone Weil
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
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
– Stephen S. Wise
Faith is a passionate intuition.
– William Wordsworth
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
– Benjamin Whichcote
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
– Owen D. Young
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
– John Lancaster Spalding
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
– Michael Crichton
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
– J. R. R. Tolkien
Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.
– Holly Marie Combs
Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
– Edwin Louis Cole
You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.
– Guy Pearce
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
– Rick Warren
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
– Charles Simeon
You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
– Stephen Collins
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
– Sharron Angle
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
– Damian Lewis
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
– Barack Obama
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
– Richard Russo
You just have to have a simple faith.
– Jimmy Carter
You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
– Maurice Greene
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
– Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.
– Duane Chapman
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
– Samuel Butler
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.
– Ron Fournier
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!
– Robert Ley
Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.
– James Marsters
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
– E. B. White
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
– John L. Lewis
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
– Andrea Dworkin
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
– Ron Fournier
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
– Walter Rauschenbusch
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.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
– Julia Ward Howe
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
– Jon Meacham
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
– Vera Farmiga
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
– Eric Hoffer
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.
– Anton Chekhov
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.
– Jim Bakker
When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
– Callie Khouri
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
– Natalie Cole
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
– Joel Osteen
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
– Richard Morris
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.
– Ernest Holmes
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
– Wynton Marsalis
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
– A. N. Wilson
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!
– William James
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.
– Nick Clooney
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
– Paul Wellstone
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
– Peter Singer
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
– Samuel Butler
What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
– Barack Obama
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
– Rick Perry
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.
– Benny Hinn
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
– Richard Linklater
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
– Billy Ray Cyrus
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
– Martin Sheen
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
– Rob Bell
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
– Boris Kodjoe
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
– Bradley Whitford