The Faith Quotes

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith.

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.