Quotes about faithful
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“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Deep, Faith, Heart Touching, Valentine's Day

“History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.”

Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian

Faith, History

“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena

Vol I
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

Faith, Science

“He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.”
“Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Faith

“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”

Charles Sheffield book Brother to Dragons

Source: Brother to Dragons

Faith, Question

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Faith, Spring

“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Faith, Learning, Science

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Love, Faith

“In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

Life, Faith, Sense

“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”

Stephen King book Desperation

Source: Desperation

God, Faith, Time, Parting

“Truth resides where there is faith.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Truth, Faith

“Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

Faith, Memory

“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Faith, Faith, Imagination

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Life, God, Faith, Problem

“God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

God, Fear, Faith

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Love, Faith, Feeling, Despair

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

"The Holy Dimension", p. 332
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)

Faith, Heart

“Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?”

Brandon Mull Fablehaven

Source: Fablehaven

Fear, Faith, Courage

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

Faith, Love, God, Faith

“Have a little faith in my magic fingers”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Faith

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

Books, Faith, Way, Girl

“The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

People, Faith

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Faith

“When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The warrior's Apprentice

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

Faith, Way, Time

“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: Leap

World, Faith

“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Faith

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html

Faith, God, Faith, Anger

“I looked at you… and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful.

So it was't my hair?”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Variant: I looked at you... saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful.
Source: Last Sacrifice

Faith, Beauty, Hope

“God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

God, Faith, Art

“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales

Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

God, Faith, Religion, Fashion

“Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”

Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults

Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?

People, Faith, Hope

“Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.”

Kristen Britain The High King's Tomb

Source: The High King's Tomb

World, Faith

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

Love, Faith, Dogs, Universe

“Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Chasing the Prophecy

Faith, Knowledge, Decision

“When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

Life, Faith

“Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?”

R. Scott Bakker (1967) Canadian writer

Faith, Hope, Boy

“I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Love, Faith, Smile, Memory

“Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Faith

“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Faith, Revenge

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

People, Faith, Understanding, Thinking

“You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Faith

“Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

Faith, Understanding

“Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr”

Leila Aboulela book Lyrics Alley

Source: Lyrics Alley

Faith, Patience

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Faith, Thinking

“He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Faith

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Faith

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) American historian

Hope, Love, Faith, Hope

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Faith

“Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact

God, Faith, Way, Universe

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

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922)

Faith

“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variant: It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself

Life, Faith, Way, Optimism

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Life, Faith

“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Faith

“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Faith, Failure

“How do I know I can trust you?'

'You can't,' he said bluntly. 'You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Faith

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

Helen Keller book Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

Motivational, Attitude, For women, Success

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Faith, Life, Faith, Joy

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

Source: Home

God, Faith, Home

“There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog”

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989) Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.

Faith, Dogs

“For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Faith, Courage, Christ

“"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

185: "Faith" is a fine invention
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

Faith

“Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it!- Richard, Faith of the Fallen”

Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen

Quotes from the Books
Source: Faith of the Fallen

Life, Faith

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Faith

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

Life, Faith, Understanding, Strong

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Source: Garbled version of c. l 1295 of Despondency Corrected (Vol. 5 of W's Poetical Works on Gurenberg)

Faith, Passion

“I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Faith, Understanding, Thinking, Time

“Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

Fear, Faith, Dreams, Hope

“It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

World, Faith, Madness

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Faith, Thinking, Strong

“Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time,… some lies can be true,… broken faith may be restored.”

Joanne Harris book Blackberry Wine

Source: Blackberry Wine

Faith, Time

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“Michael smiled at me a little. “You’re a good man, Harry. But you’re making the same mistake Nicodemus always has—and the same one Karrin did.” “What mistake?” “You all think the critical word in the phrase ‘Sword of Faith’ is ‘sword.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

Faith, Smile, Thinking

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Faith

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Variant: Life is an act of faith.
Source: Brida

Life, Faith

“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Faith

“If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

Faith

“Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

Source: Water Walker: The Full Story

Lie, Faith, Water

“You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.”

Susan Vreeland (1946–2017) US author

Source: Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Life, Faith

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”

Adrian Rogers (1931–2005) American television evangelist

Faith

“Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Life, Faith

“I've given lots of people chances, she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

People, Faith, Chance

“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

Faith, Beauty, Sense

“You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Faith, Beauty

“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 3
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Faith, Cheating

“Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Praying God's Word: Breaking Free From Spiritual Strongholds

God, Faith

“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation

Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 13
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

Faith

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Faith, Hope, Faith

“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 (1899–1972) Austrian literature historian, publicist and writer

Truth, World, Faith, Art

“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before

Truth, Faith, Passion

“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Children, Faith, Lovers, Light

“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."

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Sting (1951) English musician

Source: Nothing Like the Sun

Faith

“Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

Life, Death, Faith

“Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Faith

“Application of your faith will change your life”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Life, Faith, Change

“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Men, Faith

“In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Faith

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Variant: Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Faith, Sense, Learning

“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Faith

“Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.”

Joanna Russ book How to Suppress Women's Writing

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

Faith

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Love, Faith

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