Quotes about faith

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“Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,…”

“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”

“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

“What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.”

“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.”

“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”

“The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”

“If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.”

“Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD… But you didn't even try.”

“Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored—
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored.”

“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”

“Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.”

“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”

“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”

“Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.”

“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”

“The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come. And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“To me faith means not worrying”

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”

“Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.”

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”

“Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.”

“We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.”

“It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found."
"The truth?" Sazed said.
"No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”

“When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again…”

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

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

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”

“Question: What is the opposite of faith?

Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief.

Doubt.”

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”

“For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”

“It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.”

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”

“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.”

“Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.”

“It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”

“Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”

“Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.”

“I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.”

“Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.”

“Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”

“Oh continue to love me -
never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours”

“…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…”

“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!”

“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”

“… know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”

“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

“faith without doubt is addiction”

“So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth?”

“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit”

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”

“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.”

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”

“Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

“Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.”

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

“The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”

“I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”

“.

In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

“Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.”

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

“I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
--Joanne”

“When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.”

“You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.”

“because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”

“But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”

“Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.”

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do”

“Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.”

“The faith is not the problem, the problem is the faithful.”

“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”

“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights…”

“God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.”

“He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith!”