The Faith Quotes

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

We who have found Jesus and faith in God and love Him have found Heaven on Earth!

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

If you have accepted Christ, your sins have been washed away, and you have been born again into a new life through faith in the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who came to rescue this world.

Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

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

Martin Luther King was a voice to the voiceless, and he did that tirelessly, and his faith was the engine to that. But he was just a human being, at the end of the day.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

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.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Keep the faith, keep the faith, keep working.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.