Faith Quotes

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
– Vera Farmiga
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
– Cat Stevens
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
– Thomas S. Monson
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
– J. J. Abrams
I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.
– Martha Reeves
I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
– Jimmy Carter
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
– Jimmy Carr
I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.
– Dean Cain
I don't need faith.
– Maurice Sendak
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
– Marcia Wallace
I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
– Tori Amos
I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
– Robin Gibb
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
– Vivienne Westwood
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
– Javier Bardem
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
– Matthew Simpson
I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
– Corey Feldman
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
– Sir Thomas More
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
– Franz Liszt
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
– John Hawley
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
– Donald Cargill
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
– Patricia Ireland
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
– Garth Ennis
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
– Gordon Brown
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
– Dorothy Day
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
– Lynn Swann
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
– Nick Rahall
I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
– Timothy Radcliffe
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.
– Sean Hannity
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
– Vincent van Gogh
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
– A. N. Wilson
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
– Peter Jennings
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
– Stanley Baldwin
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
– Wilfrid Laurier
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
– Barney Frank
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.
– Jon Meacham
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.
– Melanie Fiona
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
– Rafael Nadal
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
– Bear Grylls
I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
– Ed Gillespie
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
– Whittaker Chambers
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
– Heinrich Heine
How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.
– Gayle King
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
– Tom Shadyac
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
– Vera Farmiga
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.
– Robin Wright Penn
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
– Abu Bakr
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
– Charles Stanley
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
– Thomas Paine
Have faith in God God has faith in you.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Have faith in your own thoughts.
– Brooke Shields
Have a little faith. Don't give up.
– Fantasia Barrino
Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.
– Douglas Wilder
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
– Maria Monk
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
– William Gurnall
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
– Abdul Kalam
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
– Walter Martin
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
– Joel Osteen
God continues to work miracles in my life.
– Willie Aames
From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.
– Eliot Spitzer
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
– William Ames
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
– Mason Cooley
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
– Gary Bauer
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.
– Giacomo Casanova
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
– Felix Adler
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
– Rupert Sheldrake
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
– E. O. Wilson
For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.
– David Cameron
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
– T. S. Eliot
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
– Hesiod
First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
– Joe Namath
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
– Emilio Estevez
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
– George Whitefield
Fear clogs faith liberates.
– Elbert Hubbard
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
– Yann Martel
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
– Barbara Bush
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
– William Shakespeare
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.
– Bethenny Frankel
Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.
– Martina McBride
Faith never makes a confession.
– Henry David Thoreau
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
– Mason Cooley
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
– Dan Millman
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
– Walter Kaufmann
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
– William James
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
– H. L. Mencken
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
– Flannery O'Connor
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.
– Robert Cecil
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.
– William Ames
Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
– Paul Tillich
Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
– Sydney Carter
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
– Ray Comfort
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
– Hattie McDaniel
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
– Martin Luther
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
– Bear Grylls
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
– Ellen DeGeneres