The Faith Quotes

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?

When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

He though does not always have faith.

Truth resides where there is faith.

It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith.

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

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.

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

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

We worship God, but have no faith in the workings of God's laws of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

Thou shalt not take anything on faith

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.