Faith Quotes

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

I try to act out of faith.

Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Christ doesn't keep score. It's not about what you do here. It's about the person you are. It's about your faith. That's one thing that I'd like for young kids or anybody to know.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I also like to get out there to promote a positive message about the importance of family and faith and of doing the right thing.

Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.

You either have faith or fear, not both.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

performance is an act of faith.

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.